Una tale arma anti-drone all’avanguardia aiuterebbe notevolmente l’esercito ucraino nella sua lotta contro gli invasori russi.
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Una tale arma anti-drone all’avanguardia aiuterebbe notevolmente l’esercito ucraino nella sua lotta contro gli invasori russi.
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That’s just a jammer, isn’t it?
All those “tank/jet is outdated” doomers wont like this if it is this effective as stated.
Before people start, no, fiber-optics alone doesn’t defeat this defense.
The picture is more of a proof-of-concept it seems. Maybe these guys can help with detecting threats and directing the beam: [https://www.robinradar.com/](https://www.robinradar.com/)
Ironic just a little; decades ago the Soviet Union had a microwave beam pointing at the podium of a US installation somewhere as a listening device. Apparently the people behind the podium kept getting sick as they were being slowly cooked inside.
Hopefully this will be outstandingly effective for Ukraine.
The US has several microwave weapons(Epirus Leonidas for example), but only a few units have been fielded yet. As I understand they’re pretty heavy and expensive.
But what cool name will we give it Hellrayser?
Remember to gaffer tape over the little clock display before deploying in the battlefield because it’s useless and even harmful. It’s almost impossible to programme the correct time and the flashing digits will give away your position in battle.
You can use microwave beams from simple magnetron’s in microwave ovens and a beam guiding cone. These are capable of downing drones at some distance.
For near field defense these systems could be put on tanks or small crew protection UGVs.
The distance demonstrated so far in doors is in the order of 10 meters. But that was the range limit of the testing environment. There is a video on YouTube showing the above set up works. It does not fry electronics but it does temporarily knock it out. The drones can thus be recovered and reused. The method by which it does this is sending abnormal current though power circuitsand wires as well as electronics.
China has much more powerful microwave weapon systems to neutralise drones. The problem ti’s that the cone can be lossy on the microwave field, especially if it is smaller. The Chinese system gets around this by using superconducting material in the wave guiding cone.
So their system gets higher range.
Short range systems need only a cone of about 30cms and a standard microwave emitter from a microwave oven, and a 2 kW power supply.
They could be placed in the nose cone of larger drones which would have a autopilot whilst tracking an identified target. At say 10 to 20 meters range it will activate downing the target.
In the future it will be trivial to isolate drones from these threats but it will potentially complicate components used to communicate with the drone and increase reliance on autonomy whilst under microwave attack.
Part of why the future of drone warfare is not always going to be king. It has a place but the future of warfare will not completely reflect this invasion.
It wont protect entire front lines.. It will provide significant top cover during assaults and important defensive locations. This along with ADS is part of the future.
These will be effective against the fibre optic drones as well right?