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These flying IEDs can be defeated with some simple radio jamming. They will fall out of the sky without a remote control signal.
AI guidance does not rely on remote.
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Thrure using analogue for the kamikazi drones no?
Don't take my word for it but my understanding is that your average FPV drone is much more rudimentary than a camera drone like Mavic. It's basically just a battery, 4 motors, a camera, antenna and some flight controller chip. There's no GPS or return to home feature as far as I know. I don't think many of these are even able to hover on their own but require constant input from the pilot.
Dumb artillery shells are more 6000-8000 usd in the West.
That's what it costs in Russia and North Korea. In the EU the costs are as I cited. And there are no production capacities at the volume required. China stopped exporting the specific type of cotton used for cordite production. Nitric acid is expensive and hard to get.
You can print billions of banknotes easily. You cant do that with millions of shells.
russia and nk uses 152mm, not 155mm
I am aware. The 3 mm calibre difference has no impact on fabrication costs.
the difference is in different cost of workforce, different manufacturing standards, different materials, different fill, different fuze (easily 1/3 of cost),
In terms of bucks per kill the West is doing an order of magnitude worse.
GLSDB is cheaper than regular GMLRS rocket. ramjet 155mm is prototype. there's another obscure 155mm ammunition called vulcano that basically packs smaller HE sabot round in 155mm, trading off payload for range, ramjet takes it even further
not when there's a shortage
GPS jamming is widespread.
The accelerometers in consumer grade drones are not nearly accurate enough for inertial navigation over any significant distance. Satellite navigation is often jammed in war. The US military can degrade the accuracy of civilian GPS signals without affecting the encrypted military signals. Frequency hopping can work around some jamming, but a powerful enough jammer will overload and desensitize the receiver making it unable to hear anything.
Optical based navigation would be immune to RF jamming, but that's not going to be found in consumer grade drones.
AI visual navigation has already been deployed in russian drones. Not yet in low-end ones.
The Radio Guy in the squad just got real important lmao
They have slight ones but nothing significant from what I have seen.