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I think the real game changer is using consumer smartphone grade SoCs for visual based nav+target guidance. The same $500 drone that can navigate through a GNSS
by 05 3y ago
I think the real game changer is using consumer smartphone grade SoCs for visual based nav+target guidance. The same $500 drone that can navigate through a GNSS denied environment and target a person, that's scarier than manually flying them one by one trying to beat signal jamming. Oh, and they scale better - no operator needed.
- chasd00 3y agoI’m assuming visual based nav is more sophisticated than terrain following systems like cruise missiles use right? I would imagine these days drones can read and follow road signs to the general area and then loiter while using facial recognition to find their target.
- lolc 3y agoAnd if the road signs are missing, they can ask the locals for directions too!
- corethree 3y agoI've work on these "secret" systems in anduril. I can tell you all about it, even the secret parts because nobody really gives a shit. Most companies aren't using SoCs here. They use Nvidia Xavier's and radar. Vision is for record keeping, it's mostly a joke to use it to trigger some counter uas thing. Its like a bird triggering a missile launch. Vision isn't reliable enough... Similar to how like an LLM isn't reliable enough. All of these systems can easily be overwhelmed by a cheap small cluster of drones. No system will react fast enough to bring down say 10 drones. A stealth drone will give a solved problem of getting past counter uas with an even cheaper solution. That's all I'm saying here. Actually a phalanx might have a shot at bringing down 10 drones. But it won't do this consistently and each bullet costs probably around 20 drones.
- actionfromafar 3y agoWouldn't a solution be Phalanx style software but with a regular machine gun on the turret?