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Much better than those visible radio waves.
Also known as "light", as used in Lasers, which also works to knock down drones.
Radio waves are a specific wavelength/band of the EM spectrum. Light is not radio waves, just as radiowaves aren't light. Microwaves are another specific wavelength.
They're both electromagnetic waves.
Look around the space you're in and notice that you can't "see" the light, only the things.
Put your eye in the beam and tell me that again...
You don't see the things, you see the light reflecting off of them
That's not what the word "see" means.
It is literally activating the rods and cones based on photons hitting them. Do you think we don't smell smells either?
The word "see" predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.
What are you completely making up?
Imagine if they showed real physics in sci-fi movies. You'd never see any laser blasts in space, just the result of their strike.
You sure can see plasma cannons though...
And green lasers
And any color light saber. Regardless if there's particles in the surrounding atmosphere or not.
What
It's true! When it's dark out it isn't because there's no light, but because you're trapped in the void!
You can't see light. You can see things illuminated by light.
You swap seeing with recognizing. You recognize things. And you see light.
That's not what the word "see" means. You're trying to to swap it for another word like "sense." You see objects, not light.
Bro, take the L and walk away. Seeing is a sense, senses are neurons activated by something, whether it's; temperature, chemicals, or photons.
take the L and walk away.
I'm here having reasoned conversations with thoughtful people. I left the karma farming behind on reddit, and I don't miss it. I can't lose.
The word "see" predates the concepts of neurons, chemicals, and photons by thousands of years. We see objects, not light.
It uses high frequency radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside drones, causing them to crash or malfunction.
At a range of 1km…
That‘s useful not just for drones. I wonder if this works against helicopters, too.
It sounds like it's a directed microwave cooker. Works on people too, just not ones behind good cover.
Edit: ah, high frequency, my bad, it's a gamma gun. Same principles apply I think, give or take the cover.
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