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I don’t see how this will work in a real battle. If the ai is fully self contained with no communication to central command, then it’s like a dumb missile. Once you press fire, you’ve lost control.

If the drone does require connectivity to central command, then shouldn’t it be fairly easy to jam this signal?




Radio spectrum is vast, and you need to focus your jammer energy on the narrow bands used in actual communication. Frequency hopping makes that non-trivial, and that's before you consider directed beams and satellite uplinks.


In addition to frequency hopping, there are spread spectrum techniques to smear the signal across a wider range of frequencies with lower energy in each frequency. Once asked permission to switch on military radio on a project, the answer was “go ahead, we’ll never notice”


Very interesting




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