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Re: Air Defense System

971 tested this idea in 2006 and found it was not feasible. The most effective method was an electric leafblower, and that only deflected the balls an appreciable ammount when the stream of air closely tracked the ball for several seconds. You would have to use then best motors in the kit, sacrificing your drive train, to even come close to the power required to achieve this, and even then you would need an incredibly accurate tracking method to make it work. This also means in a volley of 3 balls, you can only deflect one at most due to the time duration of deflecting opportunity
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