It would seem to me that the future of warfare will be that of robotic swarms of UAVs or missiles attacking our Navy ships and aircraft carriers. You can also expect that when the US Army is going to defend a country or region, that they will be the target of a barrage of rockets, or incoming swarm of robotic munitions of death. Therefore, we need a better system, and a way to target each one of these incoming objects. Right now, the future looks as if it will be one with a laser defense system.
That makes sense, because if you are fighting a swarm, you can use up all your ammunition trying to shoot down a swarm, and then it's just a matter of attrition of munitions. The force with the greater number of projectiles for offense or defense, will eventually win, as the other side runs out of munitions designed to defeat Incoming rockets.
Therefore, I propose DARPA send out a bid for some super mathematicians to come up with a mathematical algorithm, which will be needed to defeat Incoming swarm ordinance. Here is how I envision it will work. The radar system attached to the automatic guns or laser system will figure out how many projectiles are coming in within a 3-D grid area of the sky, and target the first and closest rocket in order to explode it, so that that shrapnel and debris will take out the other rockets coming in behind them.
The system will then hit the most likely and probable targets which have the greatest probability of taking out additional targets within that area randomly. If a laser system will then find another target of opportunity and keep doing the same in rapid succession. Each time one kill turns into 10 or 20, and this is important because the laser doesn't have enough time to stay on each target when a massive swarm is approaching.
Then, the laser will back up to a closer column or row of the 3-D grid, and do the same. Eventually it will have taken out enough incoming projectiles to take the swarm down to an adequate size, and then as they get closer the military defensive systems (Aegis type) rapid firing gun, or a large number of this type of weapon system can complete the job protecting our team and assets. Now then, I am quite certain I'm not the only person to have considered this, but it would seem that right now more than ever we need to be looking into these types of defense systems.
It might also work well for an offense system when sending in fighter aircraft, where the enemy is firing massive numbers of surface-to-air missiles with proximity fuses. If you can hit them prior to their release from afar, or from an aerial laser system, you can greatly improve the survivability of your attacking force, once it gets within range to be spotted. Please consider all this.
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