Iran's Network of Cameras Bolsters Air Defenses, Expert Says

“Following the 12-day war with Israel in June, Iranian authorities learned that Israel could easily locate their radar systems and take them out, leaving Tehran’s forces blind to the skies above, Avivi said. Unlike the radar installations, the cameras don't transmit a signal that Israel can use to locate them, he added.”

Damn innovative.

Huh. Reminds me of this video "tracking faint objects like stealth fighters with cheap cameras" [1] and HN post [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643207

Ukraine has a sound-based version of this, supposedly using cell phones as the primary hardware element. The idea is to scatter hundreds of sensors along the front in some depth, then use simple on-device models to classify sounds and send an alert when a sound matching a known drone signature is detected.

Like Elon’s camera based self driving does it also make a lot of mistakes?

I bet modern radar can tell the difference between a bird, plane, baseball, and missile, but a camera based one is full of false positives.

That's pretty cool. We need a decentralized civilian network like that to identify UFOs