the longest range wire guided missile I can find is the Kornet-EM with a 10km range.
I’ve had this thought for a while; have a regular rf-controlled mothership, that can stay out of range of jamming, and give it sort of sub-drones or munitions that are wire-guided
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Drones are not very fast, and they can be noisy.
Wouldn’t it be relatively easy to clear an area of these just by passing something through the air closer to the ground, where it will snap any fibre optic cables connecting ground troops with drones?
Also, won’t these cables point directly back to the ground troops?
Sure, RF detectors won’t see these, and a single strand is an awfully small needle in a 2D haystack, but these aren’t like guided missiles where they move too fast to counter.
knightly@pawb.social 3 months ago
If you’re close enough to see and/or reach the fiber, then the suicide drone it’s attached to is already close enough to bomb you.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
How so? If the drone is trailing 10km of fiber, it is likely not immediately above the position where you’d see it… it’ll be a km up and traveling in the direction of its target, which the fiber will be pointing towards. And you’ll know that the operator is less than 9 km away in the other direction.