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I'm curious if it'd be harder for a soldier to spot a tailsitting drone high in the sky floating above doing surveillance. They are already impossible to spot
by dmix 4y ago
I'm curious if it'd be harder for a soldier to spot a tailsitting drone high in the sky floating above doing surveillance.
They are already impossible to spot as it is at certain heights.
It would have to be right above them though.
- someweirdperson 4y agoDoes visibility matter? I imagine a drone hunter flight of multiple drones, multiple drones implies multiple receivers, multilaterating the transmissions of the target, and splash. Only works on surveillence drones that need to be transmitting, and don't emit only in the direction of the intended receiver.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoBased on what we're seeing in footage and interviews from Ukraine it absolutely matters. Hearing a drone is often the warning that you're about to get shelled. People really fixate on this swarming concept like that murderbots video and breeze right past the more high impact basics.
- dtgriscom 4y agoGood point that a vertical wing is hard to see from below, but quad copters don't have wings, and so don't have that problem (the rest of the body has width, and is visible, but that's mostly the same with a tailsitter).
- dmix 4y agoYeah soldiers in Ukraine said that the Mavic drones are basically invisible to people on the ground. Unless they spend a lot of time looking for them. It's probably not the biggest issue. One thing is whether they can aim a grenade dropping drone easier or would the wind shift it even more.