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>then isn't the act of reacting to it and trying to light up the drone is exactly what your opponent wants? Honestly, probably not in a lot of cases. If the in
by everdrive 4y ago
>then isn't the act of reacting to it and trying to light up the drone is exactly what your opponent wants?
Honestly, probably not in a lot of cases. If the intent is to collect, then destroying the drone ends the collection.
- crote 4y agoThat depends on what you are trying to collect, doesn't it? It probably isn't optical data. Satellites are more than good enough for that, and near-realtime high-resolution data is even commercially available. It probably isn't electronic transmissions either. Having a field operative hide a SDR would be way easier, and way less conspicuous. However, it could be trying to determine how the military responds to hostiles. Sending a jet after it and shooting it down might be exactly the kind of data it is trying to collect.
- everdrive 4y agoIt could be, but it's specific and situational. If you're the one sending the balloons, you don't really know what the response will be. Further, whatever the response is will not be a good test for an actual military test, (foreign fighters or bombers) which will surely have a different response.
- wang_li 4y agoThe balloon was 10-20x closer than satellites. Can get 100-400x better resolution photos.