Why can’t drones be designed to home in on and destroy jammers?

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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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Semi-related: During WWII the Germans developed a radar receiver which warned submarines that they were being lit up by airborne radar.

All of a sudden subs were being bombed without their detectors going off. A captured British airman was interrogated about this, and he told the Germans that the brits had developed a system which homed in on the radar receivers.

The Germans sent out panic messages to all subs to stop using the receivers.

In reality, a new frequency of radar was being used, but the airman was celebrated for creatively causing a bit of extra panic.

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