Comment by KaiserPro
19 hours ago
as soon as it sends RF it'll be located and destroyed.
There has been lots of work to make fibre connected drones, so that they can't be located as easily (also the pilot)
19 hours ago
as soon as it sends RF it'll be located and destroyed.
There has been lots of work to make fibre connected drones, so that they can't be located as easily (also the pilot)
There's also powerline communication that these drones could use, relaying a signal to a second drone perched back in friendly territory. And if the military is going around blowing up all of their power transmission lines, that's also going to hurt them.
How many intact and tactically relevant cross border transmission lines between Ukraine and Russia can there be?
Use the transmission lines to link up with an RF node to hand off. Friendly territory might just be some place without good Russian internal security coverage (perhaps deeper in Russia rather than towards the front lines if the node uses satcom).
A friend of mine worked on a covert comms system for the Rangers to use in the Battle For Berlin that thankfully never occurred. The idea was to clamp onto plumbing, fences, and similar infrastructure where possible. Nodes with radios handed off to other comms systems. It worked reasonably well in tests but I don't know that it went anywhere, point is that the theory is sound.
I wonder if the power line could be damaged if they dry to take out the drone?
Why not lasers through the air?
Line of sight only, alignment is very hard, and if youre near the where its pointing you light up like a christmas tree