The military already uses such devices. They look like bulky sci-fi rifles and are quite man-portable. They aren’t frying the drone, they just need to send a signal stronger than its control signal so the inverse square law works in its favor.
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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 months agoThe inverse square law will ensure that anything you have that's powerful enough to disable a drone in flight will be at least the size of a semi truck.
ours@lemmy.film 10 months ago
ToyDork@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Are they legal in the US?
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
As long as you don’t use them, sure. They are composed of basic parts, just well adjusted to the purpose. But if you do decide do use them, be aware that you cannot interfere with any radio communications in any way and/or destroy someone’s property. Which does not mean I am against shooting down someone’s drone on your property that is spying you, it’s just not really legal per se.
count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Unless someone would stumble upon a combination of microwave magnetron that “just so happens” to fit a satellite dish LNC mount. I can neither confirm nor deny that such combinations might exist.
It certainly would seem a very good way to impart… “energy” into all and sundry besides the intended target, and as such horribly dangerous and irresponsible.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I have a dream of engineering a drone to hover while it engages an rf jammer for some set amount of time.
oatscoop@midwest.social 10 months ago
There are already effective “guns” for jamming drones that are the size of a large rifle.
We can shape EM “beams” – lasers, directional antennas, etc. Inverse square law is far less of a concern for collimated beams.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah my initial response to the dispersal problem is to see if we can’t weaponize Pringles can WiFi into something that can either physically disable the electronics or interrupt communication between the spybot and home base.
Inb4 someone gets charged with assaulting an officer for being impolite to an NYPD robot
oatscoop@midwest.social 10 months ago
I miss the early 2000s WokFi craze – wifi and cheap off-the-shelf solutions are so widespread these days.
I used to “borrow” internet from the library that was 2 miles away. I waterproofed a USB wifi dongle and zip tied it to the feedhorn of an old Direct TV dish. I brought the setup anytime we had a LAN party at a house that didn’t have broadband internet.