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> A jammer has to keep the right side up and not hit anything, and anti-jammer has a much more complicated task of finding, reaching, and destroying a jammer.
by DannoHung 11y ago
> A jammer has to keep the right side up and not hit anything, and anti-jammer has a much more complicated task of finding, reaching, and destroying a jammer.
Is this 100% true? I don't know much about RF jamming, but isn't it sufficient to fix on the strongest source of the RF signal you're interested in and guide a cheap penetrator at it?
DARPA's Exacto bullets are doing that with optical guidance. Would it be that much harder with radio guidance?
- tonyarkles 11y agoNo clue what the tuning range is on these, but the tech has existed for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM That being said, there were also stories of anti-radar missiles being redirected by modified microwave ovens during the Bosnia-Serbia war. Can't find a solid link to that thougn
- VLM 11y agoLook at the stereotypical HN automotive analogies The jammer is a NASCAR, get to the track, turn left, make noise. Its remarkable how simple the psuedocode will be to write and debug. The anti-drone missile/drone is a high speed police pursuit full of all kinds of adaptive tracking and fail safes and IFF (yeah well you hope it'll have IFF) and low latency judgment calls and 3-d interception math and classified anti-jam anti-flare and predictive algorithms in case the target has anti-interception code.
- DannoHung 11y agoYeah, well, I mean that is the standard DOD approach to everything. But I don't know if that's the only solution if being economical ends up being important. Spike strips are really good at stopping cars, especially if they're running around a track in a circle.