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by JumpCrisscross 931 days ago
> how do you shoot down 1,000 drones without losing a ship?

A hangar of 10,000 anti-drone gnats. Barring a breakthrough in high explosives, an anti-drone drone will be lighter and cheaper than an anti-ship drone. We played this game with planes and boats.

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Tactical High power Operational Responder (THOR)

THOR Defeats Swarm With Microwave Weapon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q959a82NQo

So ... the Roadrunner, right?
The article is behind a paywall but the picture shows that the Roadrunner is human-size, certainly not a gnat.