How the fuck can you beat a Reaper?

That isn't all they have, though.

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Realistically, an anti air net that makes the iron dome look like a chink shooting up with an sks. I'm convinced it could be done if you can fuck up the missile guidance or targeting systems in some way, but ewf isn't an exact science, everything up constantly upgraded and expensive. Technology from 2012 is already outdated.

By being surrounded by innocent civilians.

Seasons don’t fear the Reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
We can be like they are

You mean extremist sympathizers?

>waste all your ammo spraying wildly into the air trying to get even a single hit on the UAV
Lol?

Some Iranians and a strong transmitter

>using an anti-aircraft weapon to fire at aircraft
Ridiculous.

Yes, that's generally how AA works, doesn't matter because you can guarantee that with modern aircraft whatever you shoot down will be exponentially more valuable than the rounds you expended to knock it down.

The crucible

Trees

A pine tree forest.

Ambush the operator at Burger King.

Missiles and drone strikes are fucking expensive

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Not really.

not compared to a long term occupation force being sent somewhere to do the same thing, look at the cost to run a base for 1 whole day

Fug off Taliban.

Yeah, that's how AA worked in 1945 and it sucked even then. Nowadays you shoot homing explosives. Drones aren't exceptionally expensive like planes and they aren't manned, so nobody really cares if one is lost.

A cloudy day

You’re not going to see, let alone hit, a Reaper at 20k+

-Homemade microwave gun
-Fucking laser pointers
-Radio interference

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1L222 Avtobaza.

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That doesn't stop the American military.

>WASTE THE MOTHAFUCKAS
Well there goes your plan

Find the operator and rape his immediate family to death.

I don't really know much about anti-air missiles, but it must be pretty damn expensive to just produce one. A while ago I was looking at the weight of small, man-portable ones, and they can have several kilogram rocket motors, so having to get like five kilograms of nitric acid to produce a single engine would be annoying. Then there'd be all the costs associated with testing and development, as well as the electronics.

If you were in control of your own patch of dirt and had the money and time, like a couple rebel groups in Syria, I guess you could develop a basic man-portable missile system for less than $100,000, with each missile thereafter maybe costing $1,000 to produce. Even if you could target aircraft, it'd probably be ineffective though. Maybe you could take down a single plane or drone before it would be rendered obsolete for that purpose. That would leave it useful for ground targets I guess, but surplus RPGs and even homemade RPG copies would be easier and cheaper, albeit a bit less effective.

Warfare has become unfair.

Cheap and simple anti-aircraft missiles that attack retarded drones that can't take evasive actions or deploy sophisticated countermeasures.

Drones that can dodge and deploy countermeasures won't be cheap and should be treated as proper aircraft.

Or a Chinese knockoff specialized in drone to drone combat.

Like the Palestinians do: hide your targets in places that are a PR disaster to hit like in hospitals, orphanages, schools or important natural sites and encourage everyone to film and photograph the damage.

Don't do what the Palestinians do: be so unlikeable for so long people simply stop giving a shit about your dead kids.

Don't do what the Afghans do: honestly really have nothing that would be a PR disaster if it was destroyed.

Do what the Afghans do: live in caves and mountain ranges so craggly a sattelite photo really means nothing for navigation.

You can knock one down for just a couple Buks.

Something like pic related - 30-40mm rapid fire radar guided cannons with special AA rounds and lotsa jammers of course. Though not sure it'll help against Reaper launching Hellfires.

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Kill the operator.

i cant believe americans still parrot this Meme

Drones can fly up to 60k and usually operate around 25-30k. No auto cannon will hit anything up there.

They're actually pretty terrible in a dogfight and are vulnerable to AA. Hard part is detecting them, you really do need a radar based early warning system.

It's
>slow as fuck
>not maneuverable
>not stealthy
Anyone with anything resembling SAM can basically annihilate light strike drones like the MQ-9/MQ-1C

what meme? these things aren’t running fully autonomous, at least not yet.

didn't one of them recently get shot down by an illiterate dirt farmer with an SKS?

Arduino based open source anti aircraft artillery targeting automation modules.

another slightly bigger reaper

A laser shining in its optics.

By deploying lots of radar and launching interceptor drones to locate and destroy them.

Microwave oven lures and spaags

>hur palestine is bad
>israel good
Der ewige boomer.

>Reaper
>Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)

So 15 km. Having that I do believe that Hellfire II have a range of 8,000 m meaning it can't fire from nearly as high up as it can go. That puts it past or at the Maximum range of even modern AA guns like the ZPU.

dropping a rocket quite straight down greatly increases it's range

Yes, but do you think that the official range number isn't going off the most favorable possible terms?

I knew this cap would come in handy some day

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Effective range =/= Effective altitude

Post was actually quite accurate. It's not about good or bad. Hamas isn't synonymous with all Palestinians and they do embed in civilians and fire from hospitals and schools on a regular basis . It's a main tactic.

no, it will be an average shot minus what they don't want you to know

>Yes, but do you think that the official range number isn't going off the most favorable possible terms?
They usually give over conservative numbers so enemies keep guessing at the real hard limits of the weapon

>tfw the enemies nuclear bombers actually come in at several kilometers higher altitude than quoted ceiling for the aircraft

burn like dunno 14142347286^10 tyres and let the smoke blind it.