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Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons

Posted by Soulskill on from the phasers-on-stun dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Illegal by Sockatume · · Score: 2, Funny

    You were the kind of kid who, upon reading about dinosaurs for the first time, said "yeah, well I already knew that there was such a thing as animals", right?

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  2. Also vunerable to bullets by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could probably take a low-flying one down with a trebuchet.

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