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Old 10-18-2017, 10:38   #3
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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK View Post
700 million seems a bit much,, but that's the way the 5 sided outhouse rolls..

The birds on the other hand present good value for the punch,, BUTT they are not easy to replicate. Their training cycle is probably longer than the Q course for 18D's.

Drones are not autonomous, they need handlers. In the case of the armed ones, use to attack tanks, the operator is not in a Lazy-Boy, air-conditioned trailer 200 miles away.

They also use radio freqs to send and receive video and flight controls.

A WIFI freq jammer should be simple enough to develop. If they focus on the freq's needed to transmit video, the drone is useless?? I suspect the current rage for WIFI micro-mini cameras may be key to the technology being used??

The freq use by the drone controller is the other leg to jam, but if you get the video first???

Hit the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz frequencies used for WiFi?? There are a bunch of different freqs, but I suspect 99% are using the current technology smart phones, so they don't get to choose what freq is used??

Musings from an FOG..
Don't hold your breath on that one, as very soon I'm sure they will be. The only thing that's going to stop them for sure is jammers. (Eagles are very cool, but the next step will be drones that can out fly an eagle.) Once we start using jammers the drones will be hardened and so on and so forth.
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