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If these drones act autonomously there is no radio link that could be detected or jammed. That makes them much harder to fight. Just recently I read how decoys
by lolc 3y ago
If these drones act autonomously there is no radio link that could be detected or jammed. That makes them much harder to fight. Just recently I read how decoys are deployed to attract enemy missiles in Ukraine. I guess such drones can be fooled just as well. Or even easier. The drones themselves likely can't even track perspective so you could lay down an image of a tank and when they're over it, it looks like a tank and they descend to blow up a tarp on the ground.
I do wonder how we should rate the danger to civilians. Obviously it's not great to have loitering drones that will strike you if they classify you as military. My assumption here is that civilian protection will be largely be ignored and only treated as optimization problem to waste as few as possible drones on civilians while detecting military targets at a still good rate. I don't think that any drone would reconsider if it detected civilian activity near a tank.