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There’s that and there’s also anti-drone jamming. What a world we live in.


Ukraine and Russia are apparently building drones with fiber-optic tethers to defeat this. Like the old wire-guided missiles.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-drone-makers-produc...


I wonder why spool of fiber optic cable is on the drone vs with the operator..


Drag and fibre tension.

In the former case, you have close to zero for both. In the latter, you're dragging 2km of line behind a small aircraft, risking the line getting snagged by something on the ground.


A new cat and mouse game.


A lot of anti-drone jamming is severing the wireless communication between a drone and its operator.

In most of the write-up, these drones were on pre-planned autonomous routes, and would thus not be affected. Unless you also had anti-radar installations :-)

Or hell, some kinda highly-illegal and mostly-unfeasible microwave gun or multi-watt CO2 laser that you could point at a drone and bring it down.


Maybe old school (but sort of James Bond-esque?) but I really dig these shotgun shells that shoot nets

https://www.lesslethal.com/products/12-gauge/als12skymi-5-de...




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