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Re:The arms race for anti-drone weaponry by zombees on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:51AM (#10520064)
The difference here is that a drone will not be doing 2200mph over 3k miles so differences in the position of stars won't be particularly noticeable. You may be able to do some trickery with a few outward facing cameras and some software to map the horizon though.
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Re:The arms race for anti-drone weaponry by wlesieutre on Friday November 06, 2015 @03:38PM (#10521864)
Yeah, I'd trust it more as a source of direction than a magnetometer though.

Horizon tracking would be super cool. You'd have to open your cameras to blinding attacks again to make that work, but still. Even as a project unrelated to getting around jamming, that would be a neat piece of tech.

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