• UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time.
  • Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes.
  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It sounds like it’s a directed microwave cooker. Works on people too, just not ones behind good cover.

    Edit: ah, high frequency, my bad, it’s a gamma gun. Same principles apply I think, give or take the cover.

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      They are definitely not blasting gamma rays to bring down drones lol. “radio” is a specific range of frequencies so “high frequency radio” is just frequencies at the higher end of that specific range.

      Gamma rays are insanely dangerous. I’m too lazy to do calculations/research to back this up but I suspect that gamma rays intense enough to reliably drop a drone would also give cancer/radiation poisoning to anyone remotely downrange (and also the operators). Furthermore, I don’t think we have a way to produce gamma rays in any high intensity in the lab. matter-antimatter annihilation and fusion bombs are the only way I know of for humans to produce gamma rays. The former can only be done at atomic scale in the lab and the latter is, well, I guess that also destroys drones (and everything else within 100km)

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      High frequency radio is still below the visible part of the spectrum, gamma is waaay above it.

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      Tech Ingredients YT channel made a diy microwave directed energy device to disrupt consumer drones.