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…

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

RF waves go faster and further than drones. Drones don't have the range to target the jammer.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

Adding on to the other answers here, assuming the jammer makes the operator lose control of the drone then the drone would have to seek the jammer autonomously. Even disregarding the usual problems with autonomous seek and destroy bombs, since the drone is programmed to follow the jammer the enemy can move the jammer and effectively guide the drones, either far away until they run out of battery and die, or even worse back towards you / your allies

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

You mean like in CP 2077?