Air to Air Standalone Signal Jammer

The title caught my eye, and the inventors’ credentials impressed me. Both are from the Defense sphere, and if they applied for a patent, this is a worthy invention. Basically, it’s a standalone module that you can attach to any friendly drone, and that module can sever communications of a hostile drone. Your drones loiter in sensitive airspace, and if they see a baddie, they can zap them.

The patent goes into great depth about how the friendly ground station tracks hostile drones, and if you want to get a nice overview of the technology, you can read the patent application.

Claim 1 stresses that this invention is detachable and discrete.

Claim 1: “A portable detachable drone hijacker operatively associated with a friendly unmanned vehicle, the detachable drone hijacker comprising: a mount to attach and detach the detachable drone hijacker to a friendly unmanned vehicle, the mount adapted to attach and detach to a mount operatively associated with the unmanned vehicle; a receiving antenna to receive an instruction set for attacking a target drone and a signal of interest associated with the target drone; a transmitting antenna to transmit attack signals at the target drone; a software defined radio to generate the attack signals that are compatible with the target drone; and a processor to control the software defined radio and the transmitting antenna to attack the target drone according to the instruction set, wherein the detachable drone hijacker is a discrete device mounted on a surface of the friendly unmanned vehicle and the detachable drone hijacker is completely operationally independent from the operation of the friendly unmanned vehicle and any associated electronics to operate the unmanned vehicle.”

Title: “DETACHABLE DRONE HIJACKER AND/OR JAMMER METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM”

US Patent Application No: 20240380511 

Filed (US Prov.): 2022-02-26

Published: 2024-11-14

Applicant: Inventors