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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (58 children)

Drones currently outpace their countermeasurs. This will definitely not be a thing forever. I think the effectiveness of cheap drones will go down as be countermeasures are invented.

We already see new very effective military drone jammers starting to come out

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago (25 children)

Onboard AI guidance is not difficult.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Both of you are right.

It's difficult, but how difficult depends on the task you set. If the task is "maintain manually initiated target lock on a clearly defined object on an empty field, despite the communications link breaking for 10 seconds" -> it is "give a team of coders half a year" difficult. It's been solved before, the solution just needs re-inventing and porting to a different platform.

If it's "identify whether an object is military, whether it is frienly or hostile, consider if it's worth attacking, and attack a camouflaged target in a dense forest", then it's currently not worth trying.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 8 months ago

That was a good guess but unfortunately it is just difficult even in the scenario you proposed

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