| [19FortyFive] Russia Just Answered Ukraine’s Billion-Dollar Jamming War With a $2 Compass, and the Joke Is on Everyone Laughing: A Ukrainian defense ministry advisor reported Friday that Russia has fitted its cheap Molniya attack drones with an ordinary magnetic compass, read by the drone’s own camera, to keep flying when satellite navigation is jammed. The internet treated it as a punchline. The serious read is worse: it is the fourth jam-proof navigation fix Russia has fielded on this one plywood airframe in about six months, and the speed of that iteration loop, not any single gadget, is the real weapon Ukraine and NATO are struggling to answer. |