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AS an IT student , I was wondering, what kind of transmission does the drone use ? My guess is by sattelite, however what are the spec of such transmissions channel ? Cause a lot of data has to be transfered such as video in HD (specially for the next drone generation) and the drone avionics itself .

I'm a little interrested about what kind of video compression they used and so on, the latency, max bandwith . Signal has to be cripted aswell, so it's even a heavier process burdening the drone computer

 

Does anyone know ?

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AS an IT student , I was wondering, what kind of transmission does the drone use ? My guess is by sattelite, however what are the spec of such transmissions channel ? Cause a lot of data has to be transfered such as video in HD (specially for the next drone generation) and the drone avionics itself .

I'm a little interrested about what kind of video compression they used and so on, the latency, max bandwith . Signal has to be cripted aswell, so it's even a heavier process burdening the drone computer

 

Does anyone know ?

 

Would you want to bet that information is classified?

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There's a steerable satellite dish in the hump of the drone. Most likely it's bandwith is pretty much equivalent with comparable civilian tech. Steerable dishes like that are found in marine satellite communications systems. http://www.kvh.com/Military-and-Government/Maritime-Systems/Television.aspx

 

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  • 2 weeks later...
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Most drones nowadays are supposed to use NATO crypto communications and so the connection specifications, e.g. LINK 16, are described in respective STANAG standards, in detail. They even contain data words compositions down to specific bits and use of communication technologies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spectrum I'm sure the secret and top secret bits of the specifications are kept in separate documents so that lack of highest level clearence does not cut you off completely. You can start here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_16

  • 3 weeks later...
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A well kept secret of the US Air Force is that drones are actually flown via two hand held pieces of string, one in each wing tip, and the camera is a handicam velcro'd to the belly of it.

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