If I understand correctly, a jammer puts out a bunch of RF to overload a drone’s remote link or GPS signal. Why wouldn’t it be trivially easy to just home in on that transmitter and destroy it?
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They can and do exist. You will have a hard time finding information about it, because much of it is highly classified. Anti radar missions are for the U.S. military called wild weasel. Those pilots, planes and missiles look for enemy radar, one activated they fire a missile at the radar site.
Electronic counter warfare is a major part of modern warfare. Jam enemy search and targeting. Feed false information to enemy sensors to make it look like the attackers are in a different position, not there or even larger or smaller than the attacking force is. For example recently in Syria Israeli fighters made it seem like the attack was different from what actually happened
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/story?id=3702807&page=1
As lay people details of what happened is highly classified and we will never know. The Russians and the Syrians won’t want to disclose what flaws or data from the incident they gathered. The Israelis won’t want to disclose what they did.
But you can be sure that drones that can perform wild weasel or electronic warfare exist or are being developed by most advanced nations
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