Posted on 12/19/2024 6:06:47 PM PST by Gideon7
I’ll believe it when I see it being successfully employed on the battlefield.
Care to name the last weapon system the shysters in the MIC gave us that actually performed as promised? After massive, massive cost overruns and further delays, perhaps we will get a third of whatever they’re designing actually operating at one time.
Well, these guys certainly. From last June...
Revolutionary Dronebuster® FS Revealed, Provides New Capabilities for Fixed-Site Drone Defense
From a couple of days ago...
Follow the money...
Of course — if the electronics and computer capacity and algorithms of a large AESA are tuned against relatively small drones. My guess is that the point of the new system is that it is cheaper and more capable of wide scale deployment and use by minimally trained personnel.
It is not a wideband EMP device.
Looks like a phased array device, which makes me a little doubtful about this device. I wonder how it would perform against a simple corner reflector(?)
The EMP effect is apparently generated and focused using a phased array.
Be sure to allow China and Russia and Iran to steal the tech.
yes, but the main difference is in the solid state RF element front ends where conversion from/to baseband where the control computer can work its beamforming and other processing magic...
Good point.
Many never realize that military industrialists make products designed to be sold to government dicks with they own motives and loyalties.
How well it works in the field (or if it works at all) is secondary.
Don’t such systems have lower peak power than AESA radar?
It depends on the use/purpose. Yes a corporate fed high power phased array (e.g., phase shifters are Passive at RF but you’d lose the DBF for multiple simultaneous beams and the direct DSP the central computer could do. The DBF becomes more desirable the higher you can push the individual element power, say over 50-100 watts at each element module in the array
Try to stop all of these drones.
5,000 Drone Christmas Light Show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIc969qtYo
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