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British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms (www.gov.uk)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time.
  • Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes.
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[–] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 40 points 3 days ago (5 children)

"invisible radio wave"

Whed have radio waves not been invisible to the naked eye?

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the beta test of Earth. Luckily they realised how much that fucks with us and reverted the change.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

this makes me nostalgic for r/outside.

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 6 points 3 days ago

What? You don’t have Doppler vision? Pffff.

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Light is also an electromagnetic wave, just like radio

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think it was just emphasizing that it's an invisible weapon, not quantifying.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I know some of these words

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope you know them all, man

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, you didn't have to edit your comment. I was joking and didn't meant to shame you. It's good for building vocab for us ESLs so I did appreciate it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I just edited it to fix a typo (emohasizing)

[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I am assuming undetectable waves. That is the enemy won't know where the waves are being fired from or even that they are being fired at all.