[Saeko]

How do we defend ourselves?

[anarchist23]

The massive war machine of the USA is the terrorist. If you live in a third world tribal area and your innocent family gets blown up by a U.S. missile fired from a drone then it is very difficult to retaliate. I suppose you could kidnap innocent westerners and behead them in retaliation.

[Rei Murasame]

How do we defend ourselves?

Great question, and it's one that has been making the rounds recently in light of the ISIL drone, and other LSS targets that are annoying. The answer is apparently going to be this kind of thing:

HEL - Rheinmetall's high-energy laser effectors on wheels (Rheinmetall) (16 Feb 2015)
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Having joined forces to form the ARTEC consortium, Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) manufactures the Boxer in cooperation with fellow German defence contractor Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) under a bi-national programme, in which Rheinmetall holds a 64% stake.

The HEL variant of the Boxer vehicle shown at IDEX 2015 is equipped with a high-energy laser weapon system. HEL Boxer can defeat modern asymmetric aerial threats by neutralizing optics, antennas or radars, ammunition or energy supplies of complete weapon systems without destroying them.

Maximum flexibility and an optimized capability for further upgrades guarantee a quick adaption to changing requirements. Also the protection of the turret is adaptable for a wide range of missions and to face different threats.

There is also the older NBS MANTIS C-RAM that the Germans have already been using in Afghanistan to protect their FOBs for a few years that uses 35mm conventional guns. There is no real need to reinvent the wheel, so I would anticipate that everyone will be looking at these kinds of things and buying it from the Germans since they've done the work already and are the most flashy promoters of it.

The laser effectors in the above video are basically just upgraded MANTIS C-RAM systems if you really think about it.

I should add also, Boeing has done it too and has also made the concept mobile for when you really need to micromanage your life a bit:

Boeing HEL MD The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (08 Sep 2014)
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Boeing is building a laser cannon for the U.S. Army, and the new weapon has now proved it will be as capable at sea as on land. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)—basically a high-energy laser mounted on top of a big truck—was successfully used to blast some UAV drones and 60mm mortars out of the Florida sky earlier this year, Boeing announced.

In summary, you will not be helpless. It will be possible to hit them with drones, but not be hit back by their drones.

[anarchist23]

The drones of the Israeli military terrorises the civilian population of Gaza, killing many innocent civilians.The drones are excellent at killing but so are the suicide bombers. High tech vs low tech.

[Rei Murasame]

Well, when it comes to low tech things for dealing with manual-trigger suicide bombers you have to rely on the 'old fashioned' methods of surveillance both HUMINT and COMINT, tasking the assailant and killing him before he can reach the target, or rolling up the cells pre-emptively before they can even organise the attacks.

To prevent people from being able to trigger IEDs and remotely triggered suicide bombs, you have to use the Symphony system, which basically as the name implies, jams off the range of cellphone bandwidth and other commonly used ranges that are usually used to trigger an IED remotely, so that the person pressing 'dial' or whatever, cannot actually set off the bomb.

See here:

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered its 2,000th Symphony jamming system to help protect allied convoys and soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq from the threat of remotely-detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Able to simultaneously jam select or multiple electronic signals used to trigger a radio-controlled (RC) IED, the Symphony RC-IED Defeat system is the only jammer of its kind approved by the U.S. government for foreign military sale to allied, coalition and partner nations.

The small, vehicle-mounted system is easily installed on and operated from nearly any security force mobile platform to help protect troops in settings ranging from heavy urban neighborhoods to rugged rural terrain. Programmable and easily updateable, Symphony can quickly shift operation to address changes in electronic signal attacks. It also does not interfere with active coalition communications and electronic systems. Symphony is interoperable with other jamming devices used by the coalition in theater.

"Our allied warfighters in theater face threats from hidden explosive devices on a daily basis and the Symphony RC-IED Defeat system has proven itself as a significant electronic force protection asset," said Lee Lilly, Lockheed Martin's Symphony business development manager. "Furthermore, by protecting convoy vehicles from RC-IEDs, Symphony actually frees up allied, coalition and partner nation troops to focus more on their counter-terrorism and counter insurgency missions."

In March 2010, the U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a sole source indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract for Symphony RC-IED Defeat jammer systems. The contract award specified an initial task order valued at $40.8 million with a ceiling of $940 million through September 2014.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 126,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation's 2010 sales from continuing operations were $45.8 billion.

The Afghan Army is even using them right now, hopefully to good effect, since they were trained on using these before NATO left.

[layman]

so are the suicide bombers.

Suicide bombers used to kill Israelis but not so much anymore.

How many jews actually die each year from terrorists? Not many.

How many muslims die from muslim suicide bombers and the IDF? Plenty.