Posted on 10/18/2016 5:54:26 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
The Russian military is buying up jamming devices which it plans to mount on cell phone towers. The idea behind it is simple — the Kremlin could switch on the jammers, known as Pole-21 to confuse American GPS guidance.
Russia has about 250,000 cellular base stations.
Russia is betting on disrupting a missile’s receiver just enough to stop a direct hit. “The transmission of an elementary signal from a satellite lies at the foundation of all satellite navigation systems,” Russian military analyst Anton Lavrov told Izvestiya. “Therefore, the slightest deviation from the designated frequency even for milliseconds will result in a loss of accuracy.”
O.E. Watch, a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office, noted that the devices appear to be part of a larger push by Russia to prepare itself for the possibility of major conflict.
“These initiatives coincide with other efforts to prepare Russia for large-scale conventional warfare, such as massive ‘snap’ exercises, reformation of the reserve system, exercising wartime command and control relationships, and testing the nationalization of the industrial base in the event of a transition to a wartime footing,” O.E. Watch stated.
Russia will place GPS jammers on 250,000 cellphone towers to reduce enemy cruise missile and drone accuracy in the event of large scale conventional war air force, future, geopolitical, gps, military, physics, risks, russia, satellites, science, technology, united states, War Facebook Twitter linkedin google Reddit The Russian military is buying up jamming devices which it plans to mount on cell phone towers. The idea behind it is simple — the Kremlin could switch on the jammers, known as Pole-21 to confuse American GPS guidance.
Russia has about 250,000 cellular base stations.
Russia is betting on disrupting a missile’s receiver just enough to stop a direct hit. “The transmission of an elementary signal from a satellite lies at the foundation of all satellite navigation systems,” Russian military analyst Anton Lavrov told Izvestiya. “Therefore, the slightest deviation from the designated frequency even for milliseconds will result in a loss of accuracy.”
O.E. Watch, a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office, noted that the devices appear to be part of a larger push by Russia to prepare itself for the possibility of major conflict.
“These initiatives coincide with other efforts to prepare Russia for large-scale conventional warfare, such as massive ‘snap’ exercises, reformation of the reserve system, exercising wartime command and control relationships, and testing the nationalization of the industrial base in the event of a transition to a wartime footing,” O.E. Watch stated.
Russian Defense Ministry has adopted a system of jamming "Pole-21" protecting Russian strategic facilities from enemy cruise missiles, guided bombs and drones are used for navigation and targeting GPS satellite system, Glonass, Galileo and Beidou. Latest jammers developed by JSC "Scientific and Technical Center of electronic warfare" (STC EW) - is mounted on the cell tower and integrated with the transmit antennas station RFI P-340RP, combined into a single network, covering impervious to signal satellite navigation dome entire neighborhoods
All four satellite navigation systems, the signals of which the Pole-21 must combat, use closely spaced frequencies, which end up in the interval from 1176.45 to 1575.42 MHz. The fact that even a transmitter with an output of a total of 20 watts in order to jam the radio signals in this range in a radius of 80 kilometers attests to the latest Russian system’s capabilities to create an impenetrable jamming dome….
…At the same time, the system has one shortcoming. As is indicated in its description, “The fact that this complex creates jamming both for the enemy, who is using the GPS radio navigation system, and also for domestic consumers of this GPS radio navigation system and also for its Russian GLONASS equivalent”…
Russia is also looking at leveraging existing GSM cellular towers as a detection system for unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and light aircraft.
If we haven’t been planning for this for the last 20 years it would be very dumb. I mean the first time I heard about GPS it occurred to me that any military use would be a high priority and probably easy to jam, and I have no great expertise, intelligence or insight.
“Someone out there more familiar with ICBM’s please correct me.
But, before the age of GPS, wasn’t the missile guided by stars?”
They use inertial guidance systems that use spinning gyroscopes that hold their position in respect to the center of the earths gravity at the point of launch, then the guidance system’s computer senses the gyroscopes motion/rotation as the missile travels across the earth guiding the missile to its target. The technology has so improved that a strike within feet of the target is now achievable. Our current ICBM’s and cruise missiles still use it. It’s impervious to outside interference, so if the GPS system is disrupted, inertial guidance as well as other backup systems should be able to take over and guide the missile successfully to its target.
I don’t think our missiles rely on cell phone gps. I could be wrong.
The issue to me isn't whether it is effective or not, it is that they are doing it at all. Every bit of news from Russia seems to be a preparation for war, yet we continue stumbling along.
Can we use the pattern of the Russian cell phone towers as a guidance method? The more you jam,the more precise our missile are.
” “Therefore, the slightest deviation from the designated frequency even for milliseconds will result in a loss of accuracy.” “
If GPS depended on frequency, that would work!
For a minute I thought they were talking about US towers.
All i could think of was... “and m I les yo go before I sleep..”
The Truth About World War III | United States vs. Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=751e6GHk3Us
Inertial guidance on-board has a CEP way less than a mile, maybe end-zone to end-zone on the old stuff. Big yields were to compensate for targeting errors on subterranean facilities.
Cruise missiles use several systems and cross-compare them.
One is TERCOM, or “Terrain Contour Matching.” It is older than GPS, but younger than inertial guidance.
TERCOM compares altitude and landmark info obtained in real time with a digital representation of the terrain over which the missile is routed.
It is designed to handle local variations, such as might be caused by landslides, new construction, nuclear bomb craters, etc.
I don’t think this idea will accomplish much.
TERCOM has been around since at least the mid 1970s, when I worked on it.
The Russkis LOVE war posturing. They’re still giddy over WW2.
No doubt. My point was just that we got stuff to targets long before GPS.
Lacking GPS, the solution (for the aggressor), would be to send more or bigger bombs.
THAT was an outstanding video...hopefully, more than four or five Freepers will watch it.
Lets just say our engineers have thought of this, and leave it at that. Trust me.
Yup. My dad's gun crew (port 5 inch battery, USS Iowa) used analog computers to calculate a firing solution in 1952.
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Smells like nonsense.
Coordinates of targets have been acquired, and cell towers have no “GPS” function.
GPS, GLONASS, etc are all run from central control stations. The ephemeris is broadcast from the birds.
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Triangulation of radio broadcasts is where the “fix” comes from. Has absolutely nothing to do with global positioning systems.
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Cell phone GPS is all in the positioning engine built into the phone’s processor, nothing to do with the towers.
My phones generate positions even when there is no tower in range all the time.
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