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by count 5301 days ago
It's large, and powered by a jet engine(s) - I'm not sure how feasible 'just trap it in a net' would be.

It's also, from what I understand, VERY slow - so much so that other aircraft have trouble going slow enough to keep pace with it.

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I'd expect it to be easier with a jet engine than propellers? Just use a steel cable net. Speaking of which, maybe if you use a close-mesh metallic net (maybe in addition to a coarse one for trapping), you'd break its uplink without any need for active electronic warfare?
All you'd have to do is to damage the propeller. A jet engine would probably run until there is no more fuel. I don't know how they did it, but, with the right incentive, any reasonably clever engineer would manage to do it.

It's a very unfortunate mistake to underestimate your opponents enough to give them your secret stealth drone.