Disagree. Having participated in the shoot down
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Originally Posted by
Fuchs
"Engage" is not enough.
A small UAV at 500 m altitude moves at the speed of a car and most of it can be penetrated by a bullet without achieving a kill.
Furthermore, it won't be heard even at night, and even at daylight it would be extremely difficult to spot without dedicated anti-air sensors.
Manually controlled machine guns are no solution.
If you disagree; simply double the altitude. That's little challenge for UAV design, but disqualifies machine guns without doubt.
of two aircraft with only .30 caliber weapons and having seen what one of these http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csi/samk93.jpg
will do at 1,000m, I think you're way wrong. However, I'm easy; you don't like that, there's this:http://www.army-technology.com/proje...s/avenger1.jpg with it's slewing and tracking system for the .50.