• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    you can still jam common control channels in this case, like with any other FPV drones

    you can’t jam everything, because it would consume enormous power and system would be massively complex. my bet is that they have used some band that was not commonly used, and so, not jammed yet. maybe it’s a band that is normally used by some obsolete protocol or service, that got commandeered for use by military

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      2 years ago

      all it takes is making FPV drone communication modules from scratch, it’s custom job but also known technology. maybe even some components were already commercially available

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      2 years ago

      there are much niftier techniques, but this is probably the simplest one and i don’t think anything more advanced is needed in case of disposable FPV drone

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      2 years ago

      Ah, okay, so it’s about making sure the signal can still get through. That’s not an easy problem to solve because the video and the control signals run on different frequencies and you need both of them to work.

      I have more speculation about how they might’ve done it but I’ll fight my tendency to infodump just this once.