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2023-08-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

To counter drones, you will have to remember outdated military techniques

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Posted by badanov 2023-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 I see no mention made of EMF jamming. Drones have to be able to talk to their operator. I seriously doubt their communications are very hardened against jamming or overload by jamming. Most of these drones are based off commercial ones or use very similar control systems.

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-08-03 02:43|| 2023-08-03 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 "Drones are changing the rules of the game,” the expert added."
A decade from now they will be saying that robots are changing the rules of the game.
And wars will be fought by sixteen year old gamers working out of Nellis AFB.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-08-03 08:12|| 2023-08-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Yes, targeted or persistent surveillance via airborne drones is dramatically changing the battlefield equation.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-03 08:18|| 2023-08-03 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Both sides have upped their RF shielding to counter jamming techniques. As the jamming systems evolve, so have the counter measures.

They both may use off the shelf components, but those can be 'hardened' by various means.

You can tell this is happening as the early videos show the drones failing at a distance early on when targeted by jamming. Now the drones seem to be able to operate pretty close to the jamming source.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-08-03 09:09|| 2023-08-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Drones have to be able to talk to their operator.

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Pan and I had a short thought experiment discussion about jamming autonomous drones. All the best location intelligence and tracking can be led astray by EMF acceleration of the clock cycles of the 555 timer chips.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-03 09:13|| 2023-08-03 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 doubt their communications are very hardened against jamming or overload by jamming

They aren't. Where jamming systems have been, commercial drones have failed horribly. The problem is, those systems are expensive, take a while to train on, and you can never have enough of them.

The eggheads in weapons R&R will have to come up with something that is easy to use, fairly cheap for military gear, and mostly automated.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-08-03 12:35|| 2023-08-03 12:35|| Front Page Top

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