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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

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