British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms : technology

[–] knightly@pawb.social 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The UK made an invisible weapon?

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[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

I wondered how long it would take for them to figure this out. Or simply take control of the drones.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Now we need to figure out a handheld consumer version.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we get the waves to produce "Hootie and the Blowfish: I only wanna be with you"? That would be quite epic.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

These can only do "Hold My Hand"

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They'll just use EMP tech to harden drones against this

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which will raise weight, costs, and reduce functionality. It’s like a U lock for a bicycle it’s not impenetrable it just raises the bar

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

Wrap it in a bit of aluminum foil

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[+] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

How is knocking out drone swarms different from knocking out any other communications?

I swear, such news are reminiscent of the notorious tech illiteracy in "Wraith Squadron" books from Star Wars EU. With that Bothan being, ya knaw, able to just check all of one planet's communications from the orbit after arriving there. The author (not to insult him) didn't even consider how preposterous it would be on our planet, which doesn't know hyperspace travel and other SW-grade tech yet, to be able to process that amount of information, no "hacking" parts even being discussed.

Which is even worse when pre-Wraith parts of the series are pretty sane and Corran as a character knows what he's doing.

Of course protocols used in such applications have DoS vulnerabilities that can be found and used. And a lot of existing equipment can be employed in that too. Just - why does the headline read so stupid.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

They've been using wire guided drones in Ukraine lately so directly damaging the drones is useful in cases where you're not going to be jamming them

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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id -1 points 5 days ago

The project supports more than 135 highly skilled jobs across the UK

Is that 135 individual positions, or just some mumbo jumbo job titles they're making up?

The UK police can't determine what is a legal 249gm drone or not as seen many times over with the auditors, so how on earth is this thing gonna work is beyond me?

Just trash the airwaves I guess.

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