Just do what the IRA did and launch a propane tank full of RDX at it when it's at the landing pad. Way cheaper. Take down a couple of them and it'll get too expensive to keep up the effort.
Defeating helicopters with available tech
Tyler Myers
Carter Sanders
lmfao two kinds of people.
But seriously if you could have video-guided rockets, you could have them planted in sleeper boxes around your AO activated by the sound of helicopters, aim at the sound, and launch.
Noah Smith
The Jap's MANPADS already work on machine vision to supplement its IR seeking to deal with countermeasures. Though liquid rocket fuel is a massive hassle and is NEVER cost effective to store and use on anything but a space rocket that needs variable thrust.
Matthew Sanders
The US is to big for helicopters. see this en.m.wikipedia.org
1000 officers, 4 helicopters with thermal imaging, tracking dogs, Lenco BearCat's, etc. Who would win, 1 sneaky boi in the woods on the run or 1000 officers equipped with dogs, heli, and armored vehicles? All it takes is some woods lmao 45 days it took him. 45 days.
Jaxson Fisher
Shoot them when they're parked
Jason Smith
programming a neural net to recognize a helicopter and programming it to link this recognition with the rocket's current position and correct its course are two insanely different things. Flight control is hard enough on Cessnas.
Justin Richardson
Rambo was a documentary?
Aaron Lewis
I'm sure I'm grossly oversimplifying this, but with a sufficiently large relative velocity couldn't you just tell it to keep the target in the center of its field of vision?
Carson Thompson
A Cessna isn't programmed to crash. The basic missile guidance algorithm was solved decades ago.
Juan Turner
Nah, assuming the camera is mounted properly you just have to get an X and Y change and get the flaps to adjust the rocket to center the previously established recognized helicopter in the camera. Whether you use neural nets or simple image recognition, once it's recognized then I'd think it's easy to code the flight path. The recognition is the hard part?
you'd be right, but if it can recognize what a helicopter is, and where it is on the screen, you could use that information to adjust flight I'd presume. Might have to be a decent resolution/framerate to do it but we're not trying to control a Cessna, we're going full suicide 1-shot 1-way 1-stop. You've got 2 axis of control on a rocket, shouldn't be too difficult logically, though the code might take a while to write.
that's what I'm thinking, you just have to make sure it has sufficiently large relative velocity.