Chinese MALE, HALE (and rotary, small, suicide) UAV/UCAV
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This applies not only to drones, but also to munitions. A brochure from the Changchun Air Show on an intelligent visual navigation system that serves as a backup to satellite navigation. In situations where satellite signals are unreliable or unavailable, the system is capable of navigating aircraft/munitions with an accuracy of 10m.
Pretty much jamming proof. Only way to intercept other than with point defense munitions is to dazzle the sensor.
The sensor(s) can be looking away from the target, fully protected from direct line of sight. Assuming it knows the GNSS location of the target.
If it is jammed it can’t look away.
what do you mean it can't look away?
According to the post above, jamming attacks GPS, command and control, and datalink signals, none of which the intelligent visual navigation system relies upon.
The vision system, maybe even a single camera, determines the position of the munition, visually, by comparing landscapes to maps or some such way. The camera doesn’t look at the target, but rather at trees and hedges and other identifying landscape features to know it’s own location.
The munition then attacks the target because it knows the targets GPS location before launch, or via an update before jamming started.
