Improvised Drone Device via Finnish Ingenuity

Finnish Chainsaw Innovation with Hexacopter

It's not necessary to funnel through US Department of Defense layers of bureaucracy (think technology readiness levels) to create a potentially challenging weapon -- as shown by this straightforward innovation posted to YouTube in March 2016.

Now imagine deploying hundreds of these against a target.

US Navy To Fight Swarm Attacks with LOCUST UAV

Via DefenseTech.com 

Snip from a January 2016 DefenseNews story: "The U.S. Navy's LOw-Cost Unmanned aerial vehicle Swarming Technology (LOCUST) is a prototype tube-launched UAV. The LOCUST program will make possible the launch of multiple swarming UAVs to autonomously overwhelm and adversary. (U.S. Navy photo via YouTube)."

USN research teams have run simulations and determined that certain types of attacks would leave Navy vessels vulnerable from small drones flown in good weather from multiple directions simultaneously. LOCUST is designed to address that.

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Arizona "Solar Man" with Drone

Ariz @ArizonaFPV filming solar man with a drone! pic.twitter.com/ycEhtzLVtl (Twitter) #unmanned