• waigl@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Here’s something I don’t understand: Why don’t they just make the drone target the jammer when it’s jammed? That’s pretty much the only signal that’s clear as day in these conditions, and when it’s done, there’s one less jammer…

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        3 months ago

        Drones is plural. Even if most don’t reach the emitter all you need is one.

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          3 months ago

          The emitter is 10 miles away and your drones each have a range of 5 miles. How many drones do you need to launch for one of them to miraculously double it’s operating range in order to fly the 10 miles? I think I missed this lesson in algebra.

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            3 months ago

            Your drones, but what about the guy farther down the line who might be closer or have longer range drones.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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              3 months ago

              The guy farther down the line got shot by a DShK because he forgot the reason drones are so effective is that the controller is out of range of other weapon systems.

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      3 months ago

      you mean like anti-radiation drone? because in order to find direction of that signal you need relatively large (for physics reasons) and complicated (for practical reasons) antenna array. HARM has 25cm in diameter and is suited primarily for frequencies much higher than these used there. (higher frequency = shorter wavelength = all systems needed are smaller). here we’d need something 2x to 4x as big

      also these particular jammers fuck up only 70cm band (handheld radio) and 900MHz band (used by some long-range drones), not even trying to jam normal fpv drones