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Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones. (www.forbes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.::The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. What about helicopters and what not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

As in, radio interference from helicopters?

Well, the intention is a last-resort defense. There have been hundreds of videos where soldiers on the ground see drones way in advance. (Not kamikaze drones, but recon/grenade droppers.) You open box, point mini-drone in the general direction of the bad drone that is tracking you and press a button. The time window would be very short.

In theory, only a small antenna pair on the mini-drone is needed to approximate the position of a Mavic if it's already pointed in that direction. I think even an ESP32 might be able to do the math fast enough, but I dunno.

If you mean to use a swarm of drones to attack a helicopter, I haven't thought about that.