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.
Inertial guidance and gps have been used in smart munitions from artillery, for at least a decade.==
GPS yes but not inertial guidance. You may embed gyro to a missile but not to artillery’s shell. Also if you check Wiki on Excalibur then you see that it has GRS and laser homing. But not gyro.
The systems, last I heard, were being used in 120 mm mortars.==
Not gyro. GPS and laser homing too. Russia has such mortar shells also.
Use your head a bit. If what you say is correct, then how are those Iranian drones hitting so much Ukrainian infrastructure?==
There is a different kind of drones. There are 2 kinds. The surveillance - targeting drones and bomb-drones. Those Iranian are bomb-drones. Such drone actually similar for cruise missiles so they fly very low and do not emit anything. And the route always is layed around posotions of AA machines. The targeting is by Glonass.