A Non-Weapon Method to Counter PRC Drones Intruding into the Kinmen Islands

Over the past month, mainland influencers seem to have discovered that secretly filming ROC territory generates traffic, sparking a trend of drones sneaking into the Kinmen Islands for aerial piracy.

The scene that made the topic explode across global social media was when a mainland drone flew above an outpost of our defense ministry, with two dumbfounded soldiers standing there staring at the camera with no ability to respond. Besides being adorably clueless, it mainly revealed to everyone that our Ministry of National Defense has never developed any frontline defense solution for modern military equipment.

Our military’s subsequent responses went from initially throwing stones into the air (more backward than Amazon jungle natives shooting arrows at airplanes), to the Ministry of National Defense claiming these past two days that it had conscripted a group of sharpshooters for live-fire shooting, and finally to deploying jamming guns that can effectively defend. Throughout this, the world saw that our military’s countermeasures were several beats too slow.

Actually, the brass doesn’t need to overcomplicate things.

When it comes to countering mainland civilian drones—throwing stones is inaccurate, using slingshots is too embarrassing, and shooting is overkill—the author can offer the Ministry of National Defense the simplest non-weapon approach.

Just paint the ROC flag 🇹🇼 on the rooftops, line the walkways with flagpoles, and decorate the masks and uniforms of the on-duty soldiers with the ROC flag pattern.

Looking at the root of the troublemaking, what the mainland influencers want is nothing more than heat and traffic. But their platforms strictly scrutinize the visual elements used in videos, so just let them mosaic it until viewers scold them and the platform bans them.

September 3 update:

Just as we were thinking we’d found a way to deal with mainland drones, the mainland public security authorities simultaneously rolled out a time-limited policy, the “Notice on Strengthening the Management of Civilian Small Aircraft and Floating Objects During the 22nd China International Fair for Investment and Trade,” which explicitly stipulated that before September 11, all civilian small aircraft and floating objects—including light and ultralight aircraft, light helicopters, gliders, drones below the small category, delta wings, paragliders, powered parachutes, hot air balloons, airships, model aircraft, unmanned free balloons, tethered balloons, sky lanterns, and large kites—must not be flown or launched within the controlled times and controlled areas (including the Xiamen administrative region). This unexpectedly gave our Ministry of National Defense a temporary way out of its face-saving crisis.