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ECM won't do anything if the drone is automated and optically or dead reckoning guided...
by AstralStorm 7y ago
ECM won't do anything if the drone is automated and optically or dead reckoning guided...
- anovikov 7y agoNope, it will physically fry the electronics (that's a directed antenna...), unless electronics are seriously MIL-SPEC, properly shielded, and such, which is beyond the capacity and level of sophistication of most terrorist groups. You probably can't defeat a manned aircraft or a RQ-4 like this, but some cheap drone assembled in a garage by Palestinians, Houthi or other KGB-sponsored group, easily.
- baybal2 7y agoI seriously doubt your claim, and whether you know anything about basics of electronics engineering. You can dissipate kilowatts of RF energy just with structural components of a UAV, so physically frying a UAV is completely out of the question. Near all of aviation composites come with some copper or aluminium mesh exactly for EMI, and lighting strike protection these days. And for protecting antenna inputs, there are god knows how much circuits even a high schoolers can do.
- maxerickson 7y agoWhat's the delivered power of experimental directed RF weapons?
- baybal2 7y agoThe most over the top guess will be 1kw over a drone sized target at 100m Russia has an ICBM sized vacuum tube capable of 1gw+ of omnidirectional output in a short impulse. But get guess how inverse square law works with it. Even with such monster will only get you <1kw at a kilometre. You can further imagine it being used with directional antenna, and so, but it will not change things much