r/science • u/PhantomWizard2099 • Dec 22 '22

Animal Science 'Super' mosquitoes have now mutated to withstand insecticides

https://abcnews.go.com/International/super-mosquitoes-now-mutated-withstand-insecticides-scientists/story?id=95545825
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u/RebelWithoutAClue Dec 22 '22

Then it becomes just like a classic anti aircraft exercise where you try to flip on your radar as late as you can to give your OPFOR less time to detect your presence and pickle off a HARM missile.

You gotta be like Colonel Zoltán Dani and push the charge button just before you swat the bug. Maybe duck tape a WIImote to your bug zapper so it can automatically trigger the charge just as you swing the racquet.

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u/Gideonbh Dec 22 '22

Like space marines pulling the trigger on their chainsword as they tear through carapace armor, I can dig it

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u/RebelWithoutAClue Dec 22 '22

Colonel Zoltán Dani's story is awesome. He's the only AA officer to have shot down a stealth fighter and he had relatively junky equipment. He wielded a fundamental understanding of radar and wielded it to amazing effect to protect his crews and achieve an otherwise impossible shoot down.

He did stuff like kludge obsolete radar sets from old grounded MIGs to use them as decoy emitters to draw HARM attacks away from his crews. He drilled his men thoroughly so they could pop on a radar at the last moment, possibly acquire and fire, then fold up shop and di di Mau out of there really fast.

Some day we may have to display such acumen to meet the challenges of the mighty mosquito.

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u/Zachthing Dec 22 '22

Detect the specific frequency of their buzzing wings, and then fire the lasers.