Military robots are getting smaller and more capable

Re:Military robots are getting smaller and more capable by candiodari on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:42AM (#17902814)

There are unjammable communications. Essentially ad-hoc networks using laser beams, coordinated from a plane.

The reason it's unjammable is that you need to be in line-of-sight of the laser between 2 devices to jam it.

Blinding swarms of drones with communications and coordination between them is impossible. If necessary, they'll just get their sight from a satellite above.

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Re:Military robots are getting smaller and more capable by trashtester on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:28PM (#17903805)

So this would fall under the assumption that they could not be jammed, in which case the trick is to stay out of range, and destroy them before launch.

Missiles like this with ranges of 100s of kilometers will be very expensive, and can be intercepted by cheaper missiles/drones (or soon, lasers).

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Re:Military robots are getting smaller and more capable by Latteland on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:27AM (#17906645)

You can jam unjammable laser. If there was something like fog or rain it could block it's line of sight.

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