"Signal jamming a factor in future wars, general says"

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(Denyav) wrote:

Yes, wasnt it rather funny how trying to jam signals is just a big homing
beacon too?

They figured quite quickly how to make a weapon to home right on in
that jamming signal. Those "jammers" were eliminated rather quickly.

I doubt it,how could thousands of low cost jammers be eliminated quickly?

More to the point, how could thousands of such devices be *managed* by
anyone except a high-tech, high dollar military?

If they ran them off wall current, they'd lose them when the power went
out, and if they ran them off batteries, they'd spend a *lot* of money
just keeping them powered.

Even if they could be eliminated eventually cost benefit outcome of a
such operation would not be very favorable. Such jammers cost less
than one Grand and Iraqis had only 6 or 7 of them,thanks to
international embargo. So its not very hard to imagine what whould
happen if they had 6000-7000 instead of 6 or 7.

They'd spend several million dollars a month trying to keep them
working, and realize that they didn't have the infrastructure to keep
them going after about month three. You have to keep moving them
around, too, since they'd become nothing more than spotting points if
you don't, and give the incoming munitions something else to refer to.

Unless you spend a lot more money on them, they're also very vulnerable
to the newer EMP weapons.

The "piles of cheap low-power jammers" idea is nice, as long as you
don't have to keep using them.

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