Submitted by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 t3_10p64az in gadgets
chriswaco t1_j6k7lyq wrote
Reply to comment by Stoyfan in Mass-market military drones have changed the way wars are fought by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1
Yeah, it's always a contest to stay ahead. Armor led to anti-tank weapons which led to ablative armor which led to molten warheads which lead to reactive armor, etc, etc. I remember when I first heard about reactive armor and couldn't decide if it was brilliant or idiotic.
You can block GPS easily enough, although motion sensors can help guide a drone too. You can have IR cameras but your targets can shoot IR light into the sky to mislead the drones. I'm not sure if you can send enough raw EM radiation into the sky to disable cheap drones - wouldn't surprise me.
It might work once, like the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, but never again.
PrincessElonMusk t1_j6nhkip wrote
The challenge with blanketing an area with enough EM to interfere with all possible drones 24x7 is that you risk degrading your own capabilities that require use of EM frequencies.
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