"As uncrewed aircraft, drones rely on electronic systems to function and, often, radio frequency (RF) connections guide them. Favored techniques to neutralize drones include "spoofing" and jamming. Spoofing involves beaming fake radio signals to the drone to misdirect it. RF jamming works to cut off communications with the base of operation. But militaries are finding new ways to counter these methods."
""More and more, drones operate autonomously," said Markus Muller, head of Video Exploitation Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation. "You've got the image data of the target area, then you program the flight path, and it can fly autonomously to the target." In the absence of RF interference, conventional methods like surface or air-to-air missiles are also used to bring down drones. Systems such as the Rheinmetall Skyranger anti-drone platform have already been com"
Rapid advances in autonomous and uncrewed aerial vehicles have increased their strategic and tactical value. Drones are inexpensive, quick to manufacture, and capable of low-altitude flight to evade radar. Many rely on radio-frequency links and onboard sensors; some operate autonomously using programmed image-driven flight paths. Favored defenses include RF jamming and spoofing to sever or alter communications, as well as kinetic intercepts using missiles or air-to-air fire. Countermeasures lag manufacturing, creating a window of vulnerability. Integrated systems like dedicated anti-drone platforms provide layered defense, but evolving autonomy reduces the effectiveness of traditional RF-based neutralization.
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