Doesn’t surprise me. Russia wants to use ones that won’t get jammed and they can’t be that hard to get.
Ukraine should build some protections into their cell network. Like if the signal is coming from a high altitude and doesn’t follow any known commercial flight path (if commercial flights are even flying in that area), or if it exceeds a certain speed that varies, and isn’t on a Ukraine military whitelist, then interrupt the signal just enough to make it ineffective for combat.
I dont think you can determine altitude solely from a cell signal
It’s physically possible, though depends on if the receivers care about the vertical signal direction (for determining up) and if two towers can see it at the same time (for determining how high up, if signal quality alone isn’t enough to estimate it, though with these custom devices, it’s probably not reliable to go by signal strength). I don’t know if any go to that length, inside Ukraine or outside.
Just need 3 recievers on the ground, time synced oc, and you can find 3D position of the transmitter.
Should have been kept quiet so that kyivstar can provide warning and tracking of these systems. Maybe they did. Maybe it’s already played out. I guess the story here is that Russia doesn’t have a c&c radio network that works?
I’ve been seeing a lot of news from Ukraine that make me wonder why they’re not being more secretive. Don’t give the Russians anything.
This close up picture goes to show you how large those drones actually are.
going off the grass and the fence I’d say 2m wingspan
edit:
Where’s the banana for scale?
On Lemmy we should use lemons
if we need to scale a few things at once, would it be a lemon party?
Everyone always underestimates how big drones are because they look so much like model aircraft
Specs for the USAF’s main drone (MQ-9 Reaper):
- Length: 36 ft 1 in (11 m)
- Wingspan: 65 ft 7 in (20 m)
- Height: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Just a flying cell phone nothing abnormal…
