America and Britain gear up with Project Flytrap to bring anti-drone kit to the battlefield The US Army, alongside British and other NATO partners, is testing the latest counter-drone kit at a training area in Germany. Early feedback is promising, even if most of the hardware isn't American-made. Project Flytrap, a counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) exercise led by the US and UK, is conducting trials of systems …
And there is no tech that hasn't been at least tested to see how it can be used on the battlefield.
Ever since the first pre-hominid who picked up a branch and found that he could use it to club an opponent, we humans have nearly always found a way to use new tech to help us kill or defend (which is just killing preventively) more efficiently.
Is that what defines intelligence ?
How Old-School Tech Is Rewiring Drone Warfare in Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drones-fiber-optic-cable-6c96a9f1?st=w8yhBE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fiber-Optic Drones: the Anti-Jamming Weapon Changing Ukraine Warfare
https://www.wsj.com/video/fiber-optic-drones-the-anti-jamming-weapon-changing-ukraine-warfare/55649DF9-0EF7-46D5-AA51-EB5190B7CD2B?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
Youngsters. Don't they know that if you start jamming drones, that they're going to be programmed to home in on the jammers themselves?
But warfare, and especially modern warfare has always had a nasty habit of ensuring that youngsters never grow old. Anyway-
Upon detection, troops can activate Pitbull, a man-portable radio frequency jammer that disrupts control and video links out to roughly 1,000 m (0.6 miles).
I may have a solution that could be more effective! Or just fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLcwZ4p2pIU
Also like others have mentioned.. If youngsters did clay or rough shooting, they wouldn't need foncy and potentially fragile sights to know how to lead a target. One of those interesting bits of history, like in WW2 when poachers turned gamekeepers and started doing sneaky stuff. Our video game generation and anti-firearms lobbying doesn't really help teach youngsters any fieldcraft.
The defence companies are going to have to change their models from expensive human carrying platforms to low cost prolific & portable systems. That's going to shake things up. Drones today but I bet cheap short range missile technology isn't far away. A lot of money is paid for the military version of things but Ukraine has shown that cheap, commerical can work well. It's a bit like the pets vs cattle concept in IT.
Very true but I'm told clays move at 80 mph and a close crossing one has quite an angular rate of change. And the mini-ones (skeets?) sheesh I can hardly see them against a tree line. The footage I've seen shows them straightening up a few seconds before impact but maybe human guided. I guess if machine guided they could jink all the way in. Some of the big ones look as if mainly straight for a long time at the end but probably need more than a shotgun to stop them.
A lot of the FPV drones are, but drones trailing wires brings their own challenges for the drone operators, so if everyone abandoned jammers, there would probably be a swing back towards using radio control.
The jammers may also have some effectiveness against the bigger/heavier /longer ranged and higher-flying drones that provide surveillance (if they can reach out to 1km, presumably they can reach up that far, too), as well as the expendable attack drones.
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