[PaulHoule]

Very much so.

I had a friend who'd just gotten out of EE school as a non-traditional student who was working for a company that was making radars for tracking drones maybe five years before the 2022 Russian invasion.

That was an active system, similar in concept to the radars used in air defense system just scaled down and faster acting.

The one in this article is a passive system that sees the transmitter on the drone. The comm link is the obvious weak spot on the drone as it can be detected and jammed, it is fairly inevitable that lethal attack drones that work anonymously will be widespread as a result.

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> that sees the transmitter on the drone. The comm link is the obvious weak spot on the drone

Isn't most drones run by fiber optic nowadays around the front-lines though? Can't really jam those, but maybe still detect it somehow?

[RealityVoid]

According to CivDiv's channel about 70% of the drones used are still RC FPV drones. They are cheaper longer range and have a slightly simpler supply chain. Fiber optic cable prices have exploded because of the war.

[clouedoc]

glad to see someone giving a source. a lot of people here heard of fiber optic drones and decided that now 100% of drones in Ukraine are using those

[creaturemachine]

If you count recon and droppers that can use distance to avoid jamming, sure. One-way applications are increasingly fibre.

[RealityVoid]

Can you back this up with any authoritative sources?