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  • UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time.
  • Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Everyones got this... It was obvious

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

This isn't just jamming signals, it's microwaving the electronics from a kilometer away so it will work against fibre optic controlled drones as well

[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

"invisible radio wave"

Whed have radio waves not been invisible to the naked eye?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I am assuming undetectable waves. That is the enemy won't know where the waves are being fired from or even that they are being fired at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Light is also an electromagnetic wave, just like radio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it was just emphasizing that it's an invisible weapon, not quantifying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you know them all, man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, you didn't have to edit your comment. I was joking and didn't meant to shame you. It's good for building vocab for us ESLs so I did appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I just edited it to fix a typo (emohasizing)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In the beta test of Earth. Luckily they realised how much that fucks with us and reverted the change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

this makes me nostalgic for r/outside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

What? You don’t have Doppler vision? Pffff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

This is massive. Hope the detail leak so we can use this in the revolution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

UK tech is always invented by weirdo boffins in a shed so they already told everyone in the local how it works.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Step 1: take the magnetron out of a microwave oven

Step 2: ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

So when can we start shipping them to Ukraine? Even from a selfish perspective its a perfect environment to field test this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I would imagine that a demonstration unit has already been sent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Warzone's always the best environment to test new battlefield systems.

Look at the difference in technology between the beginning of the first world war and the end. We started off with essentially standing in fields shooting each other over distances you could spit, and ended up with tanks. The second world war gave us nukes.

Will probably have AGI battle droids by the end of this war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Nah, interesting point from Issac Arthur that the dumbest AI always wins assuming both are complex enough to do the job, the dumb one will have less processing delay to make each decision.

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