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There was a nice video, I've seen at some point where a "DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike."

And at the end, they were able to protect the drone, with a tiny bit of shielding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iJjrQmEho



> they were able to protect the drone, with a tiny bit of shielding

That's not what happened in the video! Per the comments:

"I was really hoping the conductive tape lightning rod was going to work, but no."


A gutted microwave oven and a satellite tv dish have been demonstrated to disable DJI drones at ranges exceeding 500m - either having them fall out of he sky or trigger return to home. That's broadband jamming on the 2.4GHz radio frequencies though, not sending enough energy to screw with electronic (apart from the sensitive radio receiver frontends).

(This was original DJI Phantom era, so maybe 10 years or so back. I'm not aware of results of similar testing against newer DJI gear, but I doubt it'd be much different, at least for consumer DJI stuff.)




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