Is it possible using systems like this to make a home made anti-drone air-defense system? You could theoretically send the radar information to the home made missle and for terminal seeking could you use something like optical tracking using AI trained systems to recognize drones while homing in on them at the end? This all seems pretty plausible to me to given what can be made at home now with off the shelf parts and some will power. You can already make rockets that have computer enabled stability with boards you can buy that can maneuver all kinds of ways effectively, and there is solid fuel rocket motors that people can make/acquire that have a reasonable range if one were to use the 20km range given to them by the Radar. I'm curious if a system like this is feasible, and if a phased array radar like that would be suitable for weapons grade tracking, and could be incorporated to a true off the shelf guided anti-drone missle someone could make.
>>65086568Congratulations, you're at square one. To get to square infinity where one of these can actually hit something you'll need to come up with something that is less clickbait and more substantial. Your little ESP32 with aliexpress sensors isn't going to hit a moving target going any km/h
>>65086771 Actually you have more than enough capability and power with some left over to guide a missle into a target with an esp32. The servos you can get for hobby rocket enthusiasts, and ones you can assemble with a little know how how plenty good enough to steer into a moving target. All this is assuming you have the telemetry data updating to the missle, which I'm assuming the Radar would be provide until terminal intercept given the ideas proposed, certainly for a drone. The problem here is the integration and software that's all needed simultaneously to work in sync that's going to be the problem figuring out, and the algorithms that are needed. That and the cluster fuck of regulations and laws that this would fall under if you even get it off the ground. Not to mention the world of hurt you'd be in if they catch you with a homemade rocket with any type of guidance capability that's not authorized. But yes, it's technically possible.
>>65086568>that can maneuver all kinds of ways effectivelyYou should watch the video of that "missile" in use. It can't maneuver in any way effectively. You could get better range and accuracy from throwing it.
>>65086568that dependsdo you have shitloads of money and time? if so probably
>>65086568I think the whole idea of using a missile is barking up the wrong tree. In fact, I'd say that's probably true both for an individual AND big governments even. Like >>65087333 says missiles bring with them a big host of challenges, along with really fundamental physical issue of the rocket equation. They're never going to be easy and cheap, which is what you need vs drones. Missiles are important for high performance high value adversaries in turn (be it aircraft or other missiles), but that's out of hobbyist level.For a anti-drone duty, the radar part might be kinda cool as another data point eventually but the main focus that makes sense are gun turrets and other drones. Ballistic calculations are well understood and readily available firearms are affordable, extremely accurate, and have plenty of reach vs drones. On the ground you get to throw mass at a lot of problems, have effectively unlimited energy/processing, and dispense with plenty of communication challenges (you can just hardwire stuff).Alternatively a counter-drone drone where it just needs to either intercept or drop a net in the way or something also is better. The drone can fly, control is well understood, optical tracking is straight forward. People do racing drones right now that do the basics of what you need at very high performance.Missiles just aren't the right tool here.
Actually yes to basically everything you've said, its very technically possible if you have the know how to make the systems suggested and the time and effort it would take to integrate it into a fully functional system, along with the costs to build it. There are actually many companies proposing procuring similar off the shelf produced missles using readily available parts to mass produce at much cheaper costs compared to legacy hardware that is very expensive and time consuming to produce. As others have said already, the biggest hurdles here are going to be the data link giving real time info to the missile, the algorithms needed to successfully intercept a target consistently, and the software/hardware integrated into one working system. I actually looked up that phased array radar and it's honestly very impressive for something someone made. I take back my initial skepticism that it would be actually effective. Despite the clickbait title if the radar does what it says it can accomplish, it would be a very decent system for short range(20km~) detection of aerial threats like drones. The person who made it actually did a lot of the hard work for algorithms and compiling it into one workable radar system already. The github code is available to toy around with as well which is nice. I'm not actually sure how legal that is given its stated capabilities and what it can do given its stated abilities.
