Posted on 10/14/2026 2:43:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Space Force electromagnetic warfare systems are playing a key role in U.S. military operations around the world. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday visited a base in Colorado to learn more.
An array of U.S. Space Force electromagnetic-warfare systems is playing a key role in protecting American troops and degrading enemy satellites around the world.
The Wall Street Journal was granted rare access to a Space Force base in Colorado to learn how those systems work, and to speak exclusively with Guardians who flew them overseas to support operations in both Venezuela and Iran.
Hours after Tech. Sgt. Joshua Lomax jammed satellites to create a protective bubble around U.S. forces capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, he was given 72 hours to pack up his equipment and head to the Middle East, where the U.S. would soon launch its war against Iran.
“It was incredibly intense,” he told the Journal. “Everybody was head on a swivel.”
Watch this video to learn more about the U.S. Space Force’s ground-based weapons.
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Shelby Holliday is a Wall Street Journal senior video and national security correspondent based in New York City. She primarily writes and produces pieces on geopolitical showdowns, military conflicts and defense issues. She also contributes to the Journal's livestreams, investigations and elections
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The U.S. Space Force is increasingly using electronic-warfare systems to disrupt enemy satellites and protect American military operations. A Wall Street Journal report examines previously undisclosed capabilities and the personnel who deployed them during U.S. operations in Venezuela and Iran.
The report highlights two systems:
Meadowlands: An offensive, ground-based jammer that transmits radio-frequency signals to interfere with enemy satellites, disrupting communications used for surveillance, navigation, and military coordination. Its effects are non-kinetic, meaning satellites can resume normal operation once jamming stops.
Bounty Hunter: A defensive electronic-warfare system that scans the electromagnetic spectrum to detect and locate signals that could threaten U.S. satellites. Its findings can help commanders identify potential threats and direct responses against them.
The systems help the military control the electromagnetic spectrum, which underpins communications among satellites, aircraft, ships, drones, radars, and ground stations. Maintaining that connectivity while disrupting an adversary's capabilities provides a significant operational advantage.
The report describes Space Force personnel rapidly deploying equipment to support operations. After participating in the operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, one Guardian was given 72 hours to prepare equipment and travel to the Middle East, followed by 96 hours to establish operations. He subsequently experienced enemy fire, illustrating the risks faced by Space Force personnel in increasingly contested environments.
Other Guardians deployed electronic-warfare equipment to monitor changes in the electromagnetic spectrum and report potential threats to commanders. Their missions included support for Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela and Operation Epic Fury against Iran, as well as other military operations.
The central point: Space Force capabilities extend beyond satellites in orbit. Mobile, ground-based electronic-warfare systems allow the United States to interfere with adversary space capabilities while protecting its own. As rival nations develop ways to target American satellites and communications infrastructure, these systems are becoming an increasingly important part of modern military operations.
This goes back many years. During the last battles over the Falkland Islands.
I was told the equipment closed all coms from mainland to and from the island.
Artificial ionization envelope.
GREAT!
SpaceX is a huge advantage for American Space forces.
SpaceX has as much lift capacity as the rest of the world combined, and does it much cheaper.
In a few years, it is estimated SpaceX will have 98% of the lift capacity in the world.
Guardians.
You mean the Indians?
Cool stuff but I want to know what the operators used against Maduro’s body guards.
What would be cool would be if we had technology that could make an Iranian drone use its own breadcrumbs and turn around and go back to its launch point and go boom.
That would be cool. Hint hint......
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