Don't you think it might depend a great deal on the type of "swarm attack" that might be launched?

Suppose, for instance, that you were to develop a DJI drone knock off, but considerably bigger; one that could hold not only a, say a five kilo Claymore Mine, the battery life (or fuel) for four to five hours of flight time (with a minimum 100 MPH speed), an electronics package that would do coms by a combination of both short range radio frequency (like mini flying hot spots), and line of sight laser, so that microburst transmissions could be relayed, via flying drone node to flying drone node, up and down the path of attack (guidance then could be a combination of GPS updates, and off the shelf self driving cars software, as you could have them make initial approach by flying just a few tens of feet off roadways); but also perhaps having some form of noise cancellation speakers to minimize the sonic footprint of each drone.

I think you could make a disposable drone of this type, and purchased in sufficient numbers, to put it in the $5k to $10k range, per unit. That means, for, say $50 million or so you could have thousands of these types of drones just looking for the right kind of radar signature, as well as as suspected location. And all it would take is one detonation on the launch vehicle radar to make it at least nearly useless, if not totally incapacitated. A hit or two more and I suspect the guns wouldn't work very well either.

Given the price of these launch vehicles, I think spending around $15 large each to take them out is a pretty good bang for the buck. And can you imagine what it might be like? Especially if they were painted black, and came streaming in at night, vast in number, and yet surprisingly quiet? Already flying in the clutter of roadways, buildings and other surface vehicles? And then a terminal approach that would really be "nap of the earth?"

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