How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?
5 points - today at 12:09 AM
You would think the military would be able to remotely deactivate them, no?
LarsAlereon
today at 12:51 AM
GPS is based on a small number of satellites in high orbit, so it's not practical to disable it for a particular region like it is for Starlink and other LEO satellites.
bigyabai
today at 12:54 AM
They fallback to unjammable guidance, usually INS but possibly TERCOM or AI target discrimination in the modern day. Russia uses sub-$300 hardware like the Nvidia Jetson to enable semi-autonomous loitering strike capability in their Shaheds: https://www.techspot.com/news/108579-russia-field-testing-ne...
GNSS is also cheap, precise and difficult (although possible) to jam. It's probably the preferred guidance on strike drones operating outside the regular theater, where GPS are less denied.
potato_exe
today at 2:12 AM
[flagged]