With universal satellite coverage for all parties, it is very difficult to hide anything anywhere for very long anymore.==
Satellite coverage? Meaning you fire laser from an orbit? I’d like to see such satellite with such huge powerbank for such energy spending like laser for 200 miles and also such pointing will give opposite party all right to shoot down such satellite. Which is lot easier than to shoot down a drone because satellite can’t maneuver. It is going always same speed, altitude and direction.
Smart munitions use a combination of GPS and inertial guidance. ==
GPS is easy jammable. But inertial guidance? Good but the precision will go down significantly. And I doubt you may cram reliable gyro into a artillery’s shell. So it is a hoax.
The latest drones use a combination of mapped terrain memory, GPS, and inertial guidance systems. Nearly impossible to jam.==
Drone yes. But drones are sitting ducks themselves and can’t approach closer then 100 miles or be shot down. If drone will emit anything then it will be useful for homing on this drone. Drone will drag the AA missile to itself literally.
Drones are workable only against 3-world country or guerillas as in Afghanistan.
GPS is easy jammable. But inertial guidance? Good but the precision will go down significantly. And I doubt you may cram reliable gyro into a artillery’s shell. So it is a hoax.
The latest drones use a combination of mapped terrain memory, GPS, and inertial guidance systems. Nearly impossible to jam.==
Drone yes. But drones are sitting ducks themselves and can’t approach closer then 100 miles or be shot down. If drone will emit anything then it will be useful for homing on this drone. Drone will drag the AA missile to itself literally.
I worked with the developement/developers of this stuff for decades.
You do not know what you are talking about.
Inertial guidance and gps have been used in smart munitions from artillery, for at least a decade.
The systems, last I heard, were being used in 120 mm mortars.
The systems and miniaturization have only gotten better. They. Do. Not. Need. Laser. Guidance.
Drone yes. But drones are sitting ducks themselves and can’t approach closer then 100 miles or be shot down. If drone will emit anything then it will be useful for homing on this drone. Drone will drag the AA missile to itself literally.
Use your head a bit. If what you say is correct, then how are those Iranian drones hitting so much Ukrainian infrastructure?
There are several solutions to the problem of emitting a target signature. Drones do not have to emit continuously. AA has to have a continuous signal to home in on, to be very effective, because they have a limited timespan to find and kill the drone.