New drones are a challenge for security.

  New drones are a challenge for security. 

Geran 3 drone

The new jet-engined Shahed drones called Geran-3 cause problems for Ukraine's air defense. That is one of the things that the Ukrainian war has taught us. The rapid development of the drone industry can render countermeasures that were useful and effective a couple of weeks ago ineffective in current situations. Things like optical fiber-controlled drones are hard targets for defenders. 

Those things are almost immune to the normal jamming systems. The EMP pulses that can destroy electronic components or laser systems that can cut the command fiber are tools that can affect those drones. But the use of the non-coherent EMP means that their own drones and other vehicles in the EMP area are also in danger. The laser system should detect the optical fiber before it cuts that fiber. 

And fiber-controlled drones can also be put in chains. That improves their attack range. The optic fibers would be pulled through another drone, and the drone can make a chain that is hard to detect or avoid. There is also a possibility that drone swarms are controlled by using laser communication. The laser drone can be a fiber-controlled system. And it can send laser pulses to other drones wirelessly. 

The laser-controlled drones have one problem. They require straight eye contact or a fiber that transfers the command signal. Regular lasers have one problem in drone control. Those lasers must be aimed. Using high accuracy. Blinking holograms can help with that problem. The optical communication is harder to jam. But the laser rays cannot travel through the smoke and fog. Those things also cover drones from defenders. 

 The Shahed-drones are now dropping anti-tank mines. But there is a possibility that the jet-engine-powered versions of those drones can also carry anti-tank weapons. Those anti-tank or anti-radiation missiles can increase those drones’ ability to cause damage. And another thing is that those drones can use those missiles against the power stations or radar installations. 

And they can also disturb the air defense. That is the problem with weapon development. The solutions that were effective against propeller-engine Shahed-136 drones are not effective against jet engine versions of those drones. The jet-engine drone can fly much higher than those propeller drones. The next step will be  AI-controlled drones that can operate independently. The drone will fly near its target using inertial navigation. Or it can use TERCOM, the AI follows the terrain area, and the system compiles that data with images. Those are stored in its memory. 

When the drone is close to its target, the system starts to search point, that it must destroy. The system uses photographs that are stored in its memory to detect the target. And then the system orders the drone to dive. And make a kamikaze attack. Basically. Those drones can use similar systems that Javelin uses to detect targets. Image-based target recognition can be used in all types of missiles and drones. 

https://www.armyrecognition.com/focus-analysis-conflicts/army/conflicts-in-the-world/russia-ukraine-war-2022/russias-jet-powered-shahed-238-drones-introduce-new-challenges-to-ukraines-air-defenses

https://www.twz.com/air/russian-mig-29-fitted-with-an-interceptor-drone-is-a-laughable-mess

https://www.twz.com/air/russias-shahed-long-range-drones-are-now-dropping-anti-tank-mines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

The hoax information and the dangers of it

The hoax information and the dangers of it

The false-flag information attacks

The false-flag information operations are one of the most sophisticated tools in the hands of trollers. The false-flag attack in social media would be done by using faked social media accounts, or by stealing the well-known user's account, and then start to deliver the deep fake images and films. That means that the faked commercials can deliver on social media, and the customers would come to some shop, and ask for sales, which have not existed.

The most dangerous effect in cyber warfare is that using deep faked information, which is connected with false-flag operations in social media. During those operations, the hackers can use that thing as the platform's phishing operations. And even the nuclear weapons officials would try to get in the trap and give the access codes to the nuclear storages. This is one of the scariest visions that have been introduced in the media.

False-flag attacks can be made by using captured social media accounts, which belonged to some media houses. That thing would make those attacks more effective than they would otherwise be, and in the hands of the wrong people, those things are creepy. If we are believing that some actor is trusted, the captured account can make very big damages, because the trusted actor would not deliver faked information. And that would cause the thing that somebody would even start the nuclear war by using that kind of method.

So the worst of the fears is that the faked information can cause nuclear warfare. This theoretical scenario begins with the idea that some support systems of nuclear weapons would be hacked. In this case, somebody would get the codes for access to the nuclear weapon message and communication systems. 

When we are thinking that the military place like Cheyenne Mountain or Gora Yamantau would be hacked and in those screens, what is used to commanding the nuclear weapons would be caught by hackers, who would deliver the hoax information of the incoming nuclear strike, that thing can cause war in theory. The problem is that if the nuclear weapon operators would notice the attack, they have only a couple of minute time to react.

And there is no time for making double-checks by using What's App and asking about the situation on the ground. So what if somebody hacks the communication line of the nuclear command?

In this kind of visions the persons, who are serving the third country, what is in war, and then those people would hack some missile control computer. After that, they would deliver the hoax information that some missiles have been shot from their enemy territory, which could cause that the personnel of that base would estimate the situation that they should open fire with nuclear weapons.

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