Did you know one of the bottlenecks to mass surveillance by drone is bandwidth. It's one of the real reasons for 5G. We have the cameras to see tiny details from far away. But if you want to do that in all directions with maximum detail you need the equivalent of 100 4k cameras. Good luck getting that to the ground. They want to process this video through AI in real time so they only have to store and look at the most juicy stuff. The weight and power of that AI processing wouldn't be good to put on a drone platform so they would rather transmit the video raw and process it on the ground. Removing the RF requirement to move that data makes this more feasible.
Sure they could use balloons tethered by fiber optic. I'm sure they will. But they also want a system that is mobile and can't be predicted where it is or whether it is present at all.
FPV drones are flown via camera link directly into the target. This one looks to be a 10-15 kilometer fiber optic spool on the back end. The shell on the front explodes when flow into a target. There's a variety of payloads they use, some designed to penetrate the armor on a tank, other types more of a bunker buster, and generally smaller drones for anti-personnel explosions.
Radio controlled drones are used to drop grenades, do surveillance, and still some flying the payload into a target, but electronic warfare can wreck the radio and camera link
[ + ] CasualObserver
[ - ] CasualObserver 3 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 17:16:55 ago (+3/-0)
fuck anyone leaving miles of fiber optics laying around.
[ + ] x0x7
[ - ] x0x7 0 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 18:17:42 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Sector2
[ - ] Sector2 [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 22:52:23 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] x0x7
[ - ] x0x7 2 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 18:11:14 ago (+2/-0)*
Did you know one of the bottlenecks to mass surveillance by drone is bandwidth. It's one of the real reasons for 5G. We have the cameras to see tiny details from far away. But if you want to do that in all directions with maximum detail you need the equivalent of 100 4k cameras. Good luck getting that to the ground. They want to process this video through AI in real time so they only have to store and look at the most juicy stuff. The weight and power of that AI processing wouldn't be good to put on a drone platform so they would rather transmit the video raw and process it on the ground. Removing the RF requirement to move that data makes this more feasible.
Sure they could use balloons tethered by fiber optic. I'm sure they will. But they also want a system that is mobile and can't be predicted where it is or whether it is present at all.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 21:16:08 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] CasualObserver
[ - ] CasualObserver 1 point 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 21:50:47 ago (+1/-0)
fiber optic drones are not vulnerable to jamming.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 22:43:33 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 22:44:16 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Sector2
[ - ] Sector2 [op] 1 point 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 22:49:59 ago (+1/-0)
FPV drones are flown via camera link directly into the target. This one looks to be a 10-15 kilometer fiber optic spool on the back end. The shell on the front explodes when flow into a target. There's a variety of payloads they use, some designed to penetrate the armor on a tank, other types more of a bunker buster, and generally smaller drones for anti-personnel explosions.
Radio controlled drones are used to drop grenades, do surveillance, and still some flying the payload into a target, but electronic warfare can wreck the radio and camera link
[ + ] ruck_feddit
[ - ] ruck_feddit 1 point 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 16:56:47 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] autotic
[ - ] autotic 1 point 3 monthsMar 15, 2025 17:11:41 ago (+1/-0)