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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.
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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"?
Sorry, I initially read NERF guns... anyone can make a mistake. :)
When did a GPS jammer become a directed energy weapon?
perhaps an omni-directed energy weapon.
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You could probably take a low-flying one down with a trebuchet.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Unless they invented laser proof UAV's....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
When did a GPS jammer become a directed energy weapon?
You know, when Han used his Tricorder to restimulate the active particule neutrino phase shifters, which resulted in a plasma beam that disrupts the life-support system on any craft that flies slower than 22 parsecs.
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.
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When did a GPS jammer become a directed energy weapon?
You know, when Han used his Tricorder to restimulate the active particule neutrino phase shifters, which resulted in a plasma beam that disrupts the life-support system on any craft that flies slower than 22 parsecs.
Only if he reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.
When it was tuned to attack a specific type of target.
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..will never not make me think of lasers
...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.
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million-dollar sol-air missiles (which they do not have).
Who's launching missiles from the sun? And at such a low cost?
Say it aint so. A researcher proclaiming that consumer tech is susceptible to interference that it is required to be susceptible to by the fcc.
OH GAWD the humanity; sensationalism in the news!!!!!!!!
Seriously the 1st gen AR.Drone had issues not auto-crashing into walls.
The newest version (AR.Drone2.0) has a module called a flight recorder that is just a usb GPS used to program waypoints on a route or automatically send it home.
Sure you could interfere with GPS. By that same logic you could get people to take the wrong freeway exit if they are too dumb pay attention to where they are going.
I must agree with your point about this:
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This garbage article is akin to writing about a new samsung phone and confusing it for a story about autonomous humanoid robots. Android
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
with the state of the NZ military, I'm surprised it's not just one of those plastic toys you launch by pulling a zip cord, in fact I'm sure our military's rifles are just pellet guns with a plastic body kit.