"Almighty" Shahed is too cheap, yet too easy to jam that you can disable it with a simple medium power jammer device. It can not even switch to INS via detecting a GPS jamming / spoofing; if spoofed / jammed it continues to fly to an unknown destination with warhead remaining deactivated, eventually soft landing via gliding or likely the battery is running out. Definitely not as good as glorified by some twitter experts.
1) It even lacks the simple analogue switches that will switch from GPS to INS in case of jamming power.
2) Bet it uses some commercial unprotected circuits that makes it easy to be jammed and cheapest GPS receiver card that is spoofed / jammed easily.
3) It's controller unit or embedded software is not quite smart or powerful to overcome spoofing with an accurate INS.
Literally my comment more than ten days ago;
They are not winning the PR war, a hundred is fired and only few met the target.
+ Nearly does no loitering
+ Has an onboard camera but no footage so far from that.
+ Dive pattern indicates pure GPS guidance it follows few way points and dives at the last one, seeker supposed to be Anti-RF yet..
+ It was so ineffective in open areas (GPS sensitivity, likely single frequency with weak commercial IMU) that Russians started to use it to shell cities, blindly.
In the end; typical Iranian warmachine. Manufactures enmasse, yet you need a few dozen to successfully engage a target.
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