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> Drones are not "seen" with cameras and then identified as drones Depends. Not every part of the Ukraine front has state of the art EWAR capabilities (on eit
by girvo 3y ago
> Drones are not "seen" with cameras and then identified as drones
Depends. Not every part of the Ukraine front has state of the art EWAR capabilities (on either side), and is infested with drones.
That said, it's still not that useful IMO simply because soldiers can't really notice normal quadrocopter drones when they're flying high anyway, or even if they can there's so many of them because they're so cheap that it doesn't matter if the drone doesn't make a return trip.
Agreed that bird-like-but-soaring would be a better fit -- I can't see flapping as needed at all
- sandworm101 3y agoBut most all of ukraine does have laptops and SDR dongles capable of sniffing out a drone that is transmitting footage back to controllers. Add a directional antenna and you can build a reasonable drone detector for a few hundred bucks.
- m4rtink 3y agoI guess you could do a recon version that dumps footage once it gets back - no rel time feed but could be useful for cladestinly looking for more static things. Still, its more likely faster flying screemer drones from hell will get even better to not make this thing useful. Like, when I saw the Screamers movie from a rented VHS cassette many years ago, I would not think I would see it happen in reality- but even more deadly! Like sure, in the movie those killer robots were autonomous and self replicating. But they still had just a tiny buzz saw & had to jump from the ground to gut soft targets like infantrymen. They didn't fly at you at 200 km/h with a HEAT warhead that can kill a modern main battle tank by single well placed hit!