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Bolton: Iranian Jamming Technology Could Be Worse News Than Downed Drone
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| 12/11/2011
Posted on 12/12/2011 6:26:23 AM PST by Just4Him
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:26:26 AM PST
by
Just4Him
To: Just4Him
It looks like we saw it in action; I would hope that was on purpose.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:32:24 AM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: Just4Him; CodeToad; Squantos; hiredhand; Myrddin
I thought our frequency-hopping algorithms made jamming our drones impossible?
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:37:05 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Plus, these things MUST have a “go home” function if communication is lost.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:42:01 AM PST
by
super7man
To: nuconvert
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:44:59 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: super7man
Just suppose that the GPS signal is also jammed and the critter doesn’t know where it is much less where “home” is.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:46:13 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Just4Him
John Bolton should have been on the Presidential primary circuit. Plain talking, no nonsense Republican.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:46:19 AM PST
by
arkady_renko
(I want to believe.)
To: Just4Him
I said from the beginning the drone was jammed by the Iranians. Bolton is right if they can jam our drones , they can probably jam our GPS guided cruise missiles.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:48:42 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Army Air Corps
Just suppose that the GPS signal is also jammed and the critter doesnt know where it is much less where home is.The Obama family's investment in LightSquared is paying off?
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:49:43 AM PST
by
arkady_renko
(I want to believe.)
To: Just4Him
This would actually be a good thing. We’ve been getting too used to fighting against technologically-inferior opponents, and getting dependent upon weapons systems that rely upon nobody being in a position to jam signal reception: GPS-guided bombs, remote-controlled UAVs, etc, etc.
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:50:07 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: arkady_renko
The drone was an early Christmas gift from “O”-bet on it
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posted on
12/12/2011 6:54:21 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: Just4Him
The jamming is possible, but highly unlikely. At 50,000ft, the energy levels required are just too high to effectively and reliably jam data links and GPS - especially when you don’t know where the victim of your jamming is located.
The antennas are shielded by the body of the aircraft. Then again, it IS theoretically possible.
To: Army Air Corps
I think gyros alone can get it close to home where communication can be re-established. Just guessing.
To: Just4Him
I find it hard to believe that if such a drone loses its link to the controller that it is not programmed to autonomously return to base. As a matter of fact, it would not be particularly hard to program the drone to execute the entire mission, regardless of jamming and to continue to transmit information back to base. The only capability you would lose is the ability of the operator to make real time adjustments, for whatever reason.
If the Iranians capability was truly “sophisticated” they would never have leaked a word about it, much less boasted. Boasting, evening when heavily cloaked with disinformation, gives the enemy far too much intelligence. If they had leaked the “feat” to the press, surrounded by a bodyguard of disinformation, it would have served their public relations and intelligence objectives far better.
Everything I've heard about this in the press makes me think the Iranians are definitely delighted by their luck, but they are exploiting it like total amateurs and the Western mainstream media is exhibiting its habitual dilettantism.
To: Army Air Corps
I’m sure they have a self contained navigation system that they can home too. Rarely do they sorely rely on GPS because it can be blocked.
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:06:37 AM PST
by
USAF80
To: SMARTY
“The drone was an early Christmas gift from O-bet on it.”
The One doesn’t give Christmas presents. Kwanzaa, maybe. Eid, for sure.
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:08:06 AM PST
by
Clioman
To: Just4Him
There’s only one way to find out. Send another.
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:10:38 AM PST
by
Sundog
(When Hollywood defines reality there is no reality.)
To: Just4Him
RADAR TECH.: Sir. The radar, sir. It appears to be... jammed.
HELMET: Jammed? Raspberry. There’s only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr!
-Space Balls(1987)
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:11:43 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: USAF80
Rarely do they sorely rely on GPS because it can be blocked.
Agreed.
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:13:49 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Travis McGee
"Bolton said Congress ought to be concerned
if the Iranians.."
And the Queen said: If I had testicles, I could be King.
Goddam sensationalist reporting.
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posted on
12/12/2011 7:16:46 AM PST
by
verity
(The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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