Signal jamming a factor in future wars, general says

Washington Times ^ | Friday, July 16, 2004 | By Bill Gertz

[JohnHuang2]

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Signal jamming a factor in future wars, general says

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published July 16, 2004

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Saddam Hussein's failed attempt to jam U.S. Global Positioning System navigation signals during the Iraq war is an example of the growing danger of space warfare, the Air Force's top space commander said yesterday.
    "We certainly knew it was occurring, and we also attacked GPS jammers with GPS-aided direct attack munitions and killed them," said Air Force Gen. Lance W. Lord, chief of the Colorado-based Air Force Space Command.
    Saddam's government obtained special electronic jamming equipment from Russia that was set up around several sites in Iraq. The jammers attempted to disrupt the signals sent by U.S. GPS satellites that are used to guide joint direct attack munitions, the military's premier satellite-guided bombs.
    The encounter with the GPS jammers in March 2003 showed that the Air Force needed "stronger signals" on the constellation of 24 navigation satellites to defeat jamming equipment, said Gen. Lord, who is in charge of U.S. nuclear missiles and satellite communications networks for the military.
    The Air Force is building a more advanced system of navigation satellites that will be less vulnerable to jamming, Gen. Lord said in a meeting with reporters and editors of The Washington Times.
    "We did some actions during the war that made sure that when the satellites were available in view of the theater they had the most accurate uploads, so we had the constellations screwed down as tight as we could with respect to the accuracy it provided," Gen. Lord said without elaborating.

[AndrewC]

That is the world of Electronic Warfare(EW). Measure, countermeasure, measure , countermeasure...

[MJY1288]

Switch from "Smart Bombs" to "MOABS" and soon there after the jammers will be turned off :-)

[JohnHuang2]

;-)

[Southack]

Jammers emit radio signals.

Radio signals can be detected, tracked, and hit.

HARM = no more radio jamming.

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