I'm surprised the pictures were so clear. Isn't the reason it's usually all grainy/distorted because of electronic interference? Was there just no anti drone electronic warfare equipment running there?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There’s mention elsewhere that these drones made use of Russias telephone network, which could have easily been used to feed this video back to Ukraine.

Drone jammers would be targeting the radio frequencies used to control the drones, which operate at a very different frequency. If the video was indeed fed back via a cellular network then any jammers would have to be jamming that, which would impact all cell usage in the area, not just the drones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

damn, just makes it all even more impressive.

Next up - Blanket permanent turning off of all cell towers within 100km of a military base.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

The lack of defense, urgency, security personnel, seems like they just weren’t prepared at all. This base is fairly far inside Russia so maybe they just didn’t prepare any defenses against these small quadcopters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I heard they are just using many-kilometers long fiber optic cables now. Can't be jammed, only tangled. I expect they can fall back on radio or autonomous control if the cable is lost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

They do, but that's not how these attacks happened. That would require people to be there, and Ukraine said everyone involved in the attack was back in ukraine before it was executed.