{"id":19028,"date":"2023-12-26T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=19028"},"modified":"2023-12-24T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T20:07:37","slug":"inside-the-magic-radio-protecting-russian-drones-from-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2023\/12\/26\/inside-the-magic-radio-protecting-russian-drones-from-jamming\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The \u2018Magic Radio\u2019 Protecting Russian Drones From Jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FPV drones are a signature weapon of the Ukraine conflict, and jammers to stop them are a matter of life and death. Both sides have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2023\/11\/29\/the-russians-are-bolting-diy-drone-jammers-onto-their-vehicles-the-ukrainians-are-blowing-them-up--with-drones\/\">fielded jammers<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukraine-slinger-drone-killer-gun-aims-cheaply-shoot-down-russia-2023-10?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drone guns<\/a>&nbsp;firing a beam of radio waves to knock out drone communications, said to take out thousands of drones a month. Now a Russian group claims to have developed a \u2018magic radio\u2019 for FPVs which is highly resistant to jamming. A physicist with the handle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielR33187703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DanielR<\/a>&nbsp;evaluated the device minutely in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielR33187703\/status\/1736895581799551403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detailed Twitter thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom a technological perspective there is nothing surprising here,\u201d DanielR told me. But the device does make efficient use of cheap, off-the-shelf components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racing quadcopters converted into cheap kamikaze drones are used by both sides. They are capable of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ukraine_Oracle\/status\/1704867099305206215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diving into foxholes<\/a>\u00a0and bunkers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidhambling\/2023\/08\/02\/the-fast-and-furious-fpv-drone-strikes-on-russias-supply-lines\/\">chasing down trucks<\/a>, and even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOELreports\/status\/1736725594790834224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroying main battle tanks<\/a>\u00a0from five or more miles away. Often jamming is the only protection, but this device claims to nullify it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; Forbes: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FPV drones are a signature weapon of the Ukraine conflict, and jammers to stop them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,165,648],"tags":[459,4422,3777,1060,3495,261],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-offbeat","tag-drones","tag-fpv","tag-jammer","tag-lora","tag-microcontroller","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19029,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions\/19029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}