Signal latency gives drone targets an exploitable weak point

Evidence

There is a time lag between what happens on the ground and when the drone operators see the image of that on their screen. The problem lies with the signal’s latency. Space, which it was claimed could be suppressed by technical means, made a comeback in the form of an incomprehensible time lag. All that the operators have to aim at is the slightly obsolete image of an earlier situation. The New York Times reports that targets now make the most of this asynchrony: when individuals think that they are being hunted by a drone, they adopt zigzag movements. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the Achilles’ heel structure applied concretely to the drone — imperiled space returns as time lag, a twist on the space-time transformation central to the reader’s purpose. — connects to: Signal latency makes drone operators aim at obsolete images of an earlier moment; Combating an invulnerable-seeming enemy requires finding their hidden weak point

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