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ReallyNotReal's avatar

I'm curious if signal jammers will see rapid advancement if someone thinks they can use them to prevent fpv drone attacks. I'd like to see the possibilities laid out in your future article about fpv drone piloting, or if that's just a stupid idea from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about

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Der Einzige's avatar

These systems are used. Both brute force ones that jam basically every wavelength & more passive ones that that find the drone's specific wavelength & target it specifically. The issue is that jamming is a transmission so it can be tracked. If you keep them on they're easy targets, if not you might miss the drones when they come.

Jamming is an important tool but still fairly limited, especially as drones are increasingly using encrypted comms

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Apollinaire's avatar

These are already used their idea is to effectively scream louder across all frequencies than the drone controller is screaming across one specific frequency. If the jamming is successful, unless the drone has unmanned guidance, it recieves so many junk commands it will either stop working, detonate prematurely, or veer off course.

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Metastasis's avatar

Europa wird frei sein ⚡️☝🏻⚡️

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Trumpisatva's avatar

I made a lot of similar observations when I was in the army, cool to see I’m not the only one. Unfortunately the army (at least regular army) seems to be slow to understand that the next war won’t be like the ones we prepared for in the 80s.

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Der Einzige's avatar

Not much better in the MC unfortunately. We had some good initiative with the FD2030 concepts but brass is having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that most of those ideas don't hold up down range.

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Will Martin's avatar

The future isn't bright, Brezhnen. They have infinity Voodoo Chopping Haitians and infinity sidewinders and infinity more drones. We have nothing.

If you're currently a ZOGBot, then we're even more fucked.

Ashes and Echoes

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