Autonomous waypoint-navigating drones are immune to RF jamming because they have no radio link

Increasingly, hostile drones are pre-programmed with GPS waypoints and onboard inertial navigation, flying their entire mission without any RF command link, meaning the entire category of RF-based C-UAS is ineffective because there is no radio signal to disrupt. Ukraine has documented FPV drones that switch to autonomous terminal guidance using onboard computer vision, making them immune to both RF jamming and GPS denial in the terminal phase. This persists because 80% of deployed global C-UAS inventory is RF-based, reflecting procurement decisions that assumed drones would always need a human operator, and the shift to autonomy happened faster than the 5-7 year defense acquisition cycle.