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Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons
mask.of.sanity writes "A New Zealand researcher has detailed ways that UAVs can be crashed using cheap tools like Herf guns and GPS jammers, and could even be downed by flying drones with more powerful radio. The attacks (podcast) interfere with the navigation systems used by flying drones and are possible because security was not designed into the architecture of some machines."
Yes, of course there are illegal tools that can down them.
Next up: "drones vulnerable to anti-air missiles"
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
Yeah, and my BIC pen melts so easily when I throw it in the blast furnace. Lousy engineers.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
It was only a matter of time before anti-drone warfare came about. This happens with every new piece of weaponry, the quest for the anti-weapon. They don't call it an arms race for no reason.
I don't know of anything invulnerable to directed-energy weapons. From diamonds and steel to civilization and hope, everything is vulnerable to a quasar's polar jet.
I didn't expect UAVs to survive, alone in the emptiness of space after the cataclysmic event disintegrated the entire solar system.
Well, almost alone. There would be Nokia phones too, of course.
Surely our beloved overlords already have planned for and created such weapons and technology. Surely they wouldn't have spend eleventy billion dollars producing aircraft that can be downed by a 'more powerful radio'. There is probably a pilot contractor riding in each UAV as a backup. After all, un-maned != un-contractor'd.
When did a directed energy weapon become a "cheap tool"?
i feel like i'm being trained to stop calling them drones?
results never vary so far; http://youtu.be/xcdJVAUyvzc
call this weather??? http://www.globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561
wizards & warloks idea of climate change
You could probably take a low-flying one down with a trebuchet.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
if i aim it with malicious intent or watch mindphucking corepirate nazi media mongrels schlapschtick?
if i use it maliciously or watch endless mindphucking corepirate nazi media mongrel talknicians
not again please
Very nice, thanks
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Unless they invented laser proof UAV's....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
These tools are cheap, just like laser pointers that some use to disrupt manned aircrafts. It matters a lot to know that bored teenagers and organized criminals can both down UAVs using low-profile tools. It matters to know that local partisans in many countries can down UAVs being used against them without using million-dollar sol-air missiles (which they do not have).
Unless they invented laser proof UAV's....
Then we would just switch to phasers.
First of all this article is not even talking about Military drones! ... you can fly a radio plane near an AR drone and it will very quickly get packet loss," MacIntosh said."
From the article.
""You can walk all over [the Parrot AR Drone] with frequency-hopping spread spectrum
eww you can jam a toy.... Really Slashdot you are now the National Enquire.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
This is sensationalist garbage. This has nothing to do with military drones. The "researcher" was talking about a consumer product called an AR.Drone . Drone is merely part of the name and has little to do with the function of the device.
Actually I own one and it is merely an rc multirotor aircraft with autolocation stabilization that is controled from an apple iphone or andriod tablet.
There was a recently released gps module that allows you to program it with a route.
This garbage article is akin to writing about a new samsung phone and confusing it for a story about autonomous humanoid robots. Android
..will never not make me think of lasers
What, like a rocket launcher? ;)
...with a single bullet.
They will more likely be willing to simultaneously empty several clips of several automatic rifles in the general direction of the target.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Just send up a territorial crow!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Special drone-downing awards by category
Primitive Weaponry: bow & arrow, bola, net/sein, and rocks
Animal-Assisted: pigeons, seagulls, or trained hunting raptors (hawks, falcons, etc.).
Innovative: laser pointers, mirrors & sunlight deathrays, RC toy, other.
The Force: verbal command, hand gesture
The link takes you to Directed Energy Weapons; the only instance of HERF is a link to an empty page that takes you back from whence you came. There is no definition of the acronym on either page.
So thanks for the enlightenment.
But can the operator... use his cell phone during take off and landing?
I guess it's a good thing that the holodeck safeties are on, otherwise the phasers I replicated up would be FATAL to these drones.
Do you see what I did there?
Directed Energy Weapons?
Name a weapon that is not directed energy?
Most fall into the Kinetic verity I would think.
Poison maybe? Then again, this is probably because I really lack an understanding of how poisons generally work. After all that's a woman's weapon amiright? And we all know how direct they can be... ;)
Bullets are also tiny - but there are many of them.
And as long as the coordinates of some of them overlap with those "57 cm across"...
5 guys with AKs can create a bullet ridden area that will quickly cover those 57 cm and more.
Don't think of it as sharpshooting - think flak.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Most of these problems are already solved, they just make your equipment more expensive.