Saudi F-15 shoots down drone .... Killing drones is the new sport in the Middle East...

#BREAKING: The UAV of #Houthi rebels which was shot down by #SaudiArabia's F-15C fighter jets recently was in fact the SIGINT variant of #Iran made Shahed-123 which is in service of #IRGC|ASF since 2018. #RSAF released video of its shot-down over S. #SaudiArabia yesterday. pic.twitter.com/uO3SA8i0CD

— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) June 25, 2019

This is getting interesting.

Drones were suppose to be the "wave" of the future but its becoming more than a little apparent that they're basically unusable in the new fashion that's hit warfare worldwide.

This hybrid warfare thing is going to require a rethink of things.

Question.

It's common knowledge that drones are useless (at least the ones we currently have) in a peer vs peer conflict.

What happens when even in what we would have in the past considered "low level"/insurgent warfare they become non-viable?

Does this mean that we've seen the end of the current generation of drones? Do we need a second wave of development with AI now to aid their survival?

From my chair it looks like we do.  Additionally the idea of countermeasures on these things seems like a no-brainer...of course that will add to the cost but as of right now they can't run, they can't turn and they can't defend.  We're looking at multi-million dollar targets.

The only thing we haven't seen is the first Ace in the drone killing business but I'd bet its coming soon.