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mahatmakanejeeves

(71,057 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:09 PM 3 hrs ago

The U.S. Has Found a Way to Down a Drone Without Spending $1 Million

The Wall Street Journal
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The U.S. is tackling one of the most pressing problems of modern warfare: taking down low-cost drones without using expensive missiles.

The U.S. Has Found a Way to Down a Drone Without Spending $1 Million
New tactical vehicles with specialized guns and ammunition can lower the cost of blowing drones out of the sky.
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1:22 PM · Jun 1, 2026

The U.S. is tackling one of the most pressing problems of modern warfare: taking down low-cost drones without using expensive missiles.
— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) 2026-06-01T17:22:19.031518Z

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The U.S. Has Found a Way to Down a Drone Without Spending $1 Million (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago OP

It's the end of the world as we know it! Turbineguy 3 hrs ago #1

;-{)US & Philippines Test-Fire New MADIS Air Defense System to Counter Modern Aerial Goonch 2 hrs ago #2

Thanks. I don't have time to access the library's database. And good afternoon. NT mahatmakanejeeves 2 hrs ago #3

All they had to do was continue supporting Ukraine and they would have learned it long ago Bev54 2 hrs ago #4

Ukraine is doing it with a Piper Cub and a shotgun displacedvermoter 2 hrs ago #5

Turbineguy

(40,236 posts)

1. It's the end of the world as we know it!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:13 PM

3 hrs ago

I've always maintained that McDonald's should send their customers to the Pentagon for training, that way they can charge $500 for a Happy Meal.

Goonch

(5,689 posts)

2. ;-{)US & Philippines Test-Fire New MADIS Air Defense System to Counter Modern Aerial

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:46 PM

2 hrs ago

mahatmakanejeeves

(71,057 posts)

3. Thanks. I don't have time to access the library's database. And good afternoon. NT

Reply to Goonch (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:51 PM

2 hrs ago

Bev54

(13,538 posts)

4. All they had to do was continue supporting Ukraine and they would have learned it long ago

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:04 PM

2 hrs ago

Now Ukraine knows he would just hand any info over to Putin.

displacedvermoter

(5,073 posts)

5. Ukraine is doing it with a Piper Cub and a shotgun

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:10 PM

2 hrs ago

I have seen. Not high tech or expensive enough, I assume, for Hegseth's war fighters.

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