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Comment Re:So all actual drone threats have to do is... (Score 1) 61

"Track on Jam"

Triangulate the source of the jamming (not difficult), lock in a course using the onboard IMU, accelerate to maximum speed possible with motors/controllers even if beyond normal safe parameters. Do not abort run under any circumstance.

One USAF jammer operator having a bad day.

Next jammer solicitation has an autonomous CIWS mount in it.

Next set of firmware has IR communication with a swarm of like minded drones who will continue the retribution run at all costs.

USAF ends up having to spec up a drone jammer that has better air defence capabilities than an Aegis cruiser because even Aegis probably can't engage several hundred targets at once.

I can't see this being a sensible tool to use given the trivial marginal cost of its target - it does look like they're assuming that their buy cost for a drone (Reaper/Globalhawk) is the baseline for everybody else, whereas the *real* cost is probably comparable to or a little more than a Katusha rocket, and in any arena where the USAF will be engaging (Posse Comitatus applies to the USAF, yes?) they could be looking at hundreds or thousands of the things.

Let's rebrand this from "Drone Jammer" to "Intelligent Flak Magnet" as that's the way it's going to go.

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