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[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well in a nutshell, communication equipment is supposed to transmit electromagnetic waves to communicate with other equipment. What would "shielding" it mean? Its whole purpose is to send and receive. Preventing electromagnetic waves from getting to it would defeat the whole purpose of a communication device. If you only block most frequencies and leave some frequency open to communicate on, then the drones can use that frequency too. If you flood all frequencies with junk, than there's no way any communication equipment could work because the signal will be overwhelmed by noise.

Anyone who knows more feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's the basic issue. Either everyone is blind or no one is.

The electronic warfare being used are basically all types of jamming, flooding frequencies with random noise, not really electromagnetic pulses in the sense of using electric waves to induce charges in an object to disable it. Something like that would take an immense amount of power.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I get what you're saying, but I'm talking about high energy electromagnetic waves to fully just disable by frying. And by shielding I meant faraday cages and hardening. But generally you make good points.

So I guess the real answer would be waveguide or antenna focused high energy electromagnetic weapons. Which aren't really compact enough for the battlefield, have complicated energy requirements for front line use, and are more theoretical than practical at the scale needed. Plus then you get into aiming at something that fast.

this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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