If made even slightly smaller than the existing unit, these can be bolted onto most armor in the same vein as they presently do with jamming devices or reactive systems, only with more success. Jamming small drones is perfectly possible, but jamming someone is typically something you want a human operating in real time and not something you can bolt onto a tank. So present modular jamming units are unreliable since they have to be pre-set and hope you're hitting the frequency the enemy is using.
Not so with this. This is a superior counter to the small drone warfare doctrine that is rapidly developing in the Ukraine.
Smaller versions of this already exist, it's called a photonic fence and is used to wipe out mosquitoes in flight using a scanning laser to ID the species and sex of a ufo, then a more powerful laser to either flat out burn specific targets to death or just incinerate the wings and effectively cripple things.
The main problems with the photonic fence are that the places which need it don't have the infrastructure to power it, and the units get stolen otherwise 🙄
Obviously the scales involved there are negligible to humans beyond the aspects of disease vector control, but the basic premise of a DE system using IFF, identification friend or foe, is there. Meaning if you have drone vs drone swarms you can pick off only the ones you want, most simply done by considering uniform, mass produced models vs everything else.
I reserve my right to assume this is another pathetic attempt by the military to make themselves look cool to the younger generations in an effort to bolster their abysmal recruitment numbers.
They are, not as bad as the US military perhaps, but their ads have been just as embarrassing. There was one awhile back where they tried to show off how inclusive they were by stopping a patrol to allow a muslim soldier to pray and of course anyone with a brain realised all this would do is make them a giant target out in the open. No one wants to die for a bunch of paedophiles and corpo executives profiteering off war so they're trying all this weird shit going "You kids like space laz0rs don't you? You'll get to fire this one day!".
You misunderstand the premise of the tech here.
If made even slightly smaller than the existing unit, these can be bolted onto most armor in the same vein as they presently do with jamming devices or reactive systems, only with more success. Jamming small drones is perfectly possible, but jamming someone is typically something you want a human operating in real time and not something you can bolt onto a tank. So present modular jamming units are unreliable since they have to be pre-set and hope you're hitting the frequency the enemy is using.
Not so with this. This is a superior counter to the small drone warfare doctrine that is rapidly developing in the Ukraine.
Smaller versions of this already exist, it's called a photonic fence and is used to wipe out mosquitoes in flight using a scanning laser to ID the species and sex of a ufo, then a more powerful laser to either flat out burn specific targets to death or just incinerate the wings and effectively cripple things.
The main problems with the photonic fence are that the places which need it don't have the infrastructure to power it, and the units get stolen otherwise 🙄
Obviously the scales involved there are negligible to humans beyond the aspects of disease vector control, but the basic premise of a DE system using IFF, identification friend or foe, is there. Meaning if you have drone vs drone swarms you can pick off only the ones you want, most simply done by considering uniform, mass produced models vs everything else.
I reserve my right to assume this is another pathetic attempt by the military to make themselves look cool to the younger generations in an effort to bolster their abysmal recruitment numbers.
The Brits aren't having recruitment issues that I'm aware of. That said, fair enough.
They are, not as bad as the US military perhaps, but their ads have been just as embarrassing. There was one awhile back where they tried to show off how inclusive they were by stopping a patrol to allow a muslim soldier to pray and of course anyone with a brain realised all this would do is make them a giant target out in the open. No one wants to die for a bunch of paedophiles and corpo executives profiteering off war so they're trying all this weird shit going "You kids like space laz0rs don't you? You'll get to fire this one day!".