alt Hacker News> flying drones into optimal positions beneath thunderclouds to actively trigger lightning strikes, and then guiding the discharge safely away from vulnerable areas
From a military standpoint, I wonder what it would take to discharge into a vulnerable area...
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stronglikedan • 04/24/2025
> I wonder what it would take to discharge into a vulnerable area
HAARP /s
You could put the wire in the vulnerable area - perhaps using the same drone? But I don't think it would be any use. A lightning strike releases about 1 GJ of energy, mostly into the sky. So the effect at the target would probably be no more than a few kg of explosives which you could have delivered using the wire anyway.