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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unfortunately home on jam is a specialised function that requires the drone to switch to fully autonomous mode, find the source and fly into it. then it needs to be robustly tested for bugs so you don’t end up killing yourself or friendlies nearby.
the Ukrainian FPV units using civilian tech have modified the gear to use directional antennas on both TX and RX for range and use case. this complicates the ability of individual drones to ascertain the source of jamming without adding additional hardware.
they are “dealing” jamming by brute force numbers (sending drone after drone until one manages to hit the original target because jamming itself is not foolproof). There is a short documentary from Scripps News basically showing a Ukr FPV pilot having to fly several drones to the same target because the first four were downed by jamming. the last one worked.
A Ukr defense minister previously said the FPV cost per kill of a Russian soldier is $1700. no doubt cheap because no new technology needed to be developed.
maybe radiation killer drones are in the works but I doubt this will come from anyone other than the Americans or Israelis. for now it is just too cheap and too easy to just send more civilian tech at the enemy.
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