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by hgoel 11 hours ago
I thought that was still human-in-the-loop? The drone's onboard computing identifies a potential target from a distance such that EW isn't effective, the human confirms it, and the drone moves in closer to attack. At this point jamming doesn't matter because the drone already has its orders.
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The last piece I heard was talking about no human in the loop for anti-drone turrets because it hinges on sub second reaction time which human operator can not deliver.

With drones themselves receiving targeting it's different so at least for some time it will have the operator in the loop. But if the operator again becomes the bottleneck due to operator to drone ratio (drone production doubles every N months, while conscription ... lets just say doesnt), it will go out of the window really fast. It will also more consistently target specific body parts to juice that wounded to killed ratio.

An assumption that there is some distance from which you still see the **, but don't get affected by jamming is not the strongest one too.