Wasn’t really reflecting on the deeper issues of the story, more a laugh at the headline.
Full-stop I’m not interested in bashing the houseless. If you wanna talk about the deeper systemic problems re: houseless folks, and in particular the housing crisis here in Portland, this is probably not the thread for it.
source
http://www.apd.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3099_ATP%203-01x81%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf
Enjoy!
At least not more than a handful of times.
Consumer drones are mostly built to be cheap, cheerful, and amusing to fly; so the cheap seats often don’t bother with any autonomy at all(aside from stability control, which is more or less a must for building a quad you can actually fly; and sometimes an attempt at automated soft landing). Even the ones that have waypoints, or support for loitering, or the like, typically lean really hard on GPS because it’s markedly easier than machine vision or dead reckoning via other sensors.
Those problems(with the exception of machine vision, which is a genuinely fairly nasty problem except for simple cases like optic flow rate) are all pretty readily fixable at fairly low cost if you expect jamming to be an issue. Plus, even the lousiest of consumer wifi chipsets take an interest in signal strength and SNR; so you probably wouldn’t even need cool SDR tricks to implement a “Just fly straight into than intense RF source as fast as you can” behavior to replace the current ‘attempt to land safely’ default.
Surely a dollar’s worth of physical shielding downward around the GPS antenna would profoundly limit the effects of ground-based jamming.
Makes me wonder if you actually RTFM’d.
yes, they did/do - breaching is most common, but super effective in close quarters combat
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