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To: artichokegrower

I see a serious problem here. The Russians have not only developed very effective GPS jammers, but are gleefully distributing them to all sorts of villains who hope to avoid our GPS directed weaponry.

So what happens to one of these highly accurate bombs when it enters the GPS jamming bubble surrounding a ship at a respectable distance? Does it reduce its accuracy from 1 meter to 10 meters? 100 meters?

I remember that many years ago, the Russians demonstrated their anti-ballistic missile capability by using an ABM against a ballistic missile. They helped insure the shoot down by putting a homing beacon in the missile.

We weren’t *that* rude with this test, at least I hope, but assuming pretty much ideal conditions does not prove an effective weapons system.

Yeah, it might work against pirates; but in practical terms we don’t use weapons like this against pirates. We use them against enemy warships, that likely have jammers on board, if they know what is good for them.


29 posted on 09/19/2013 7:11:09 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The bombs are laser guided not GPS guided . GPS jammer won’t do squat also a GPS jammer is a active transmitter which means that it can pin pointed & killed by a homing anti-radiation missile.


43 posted on 09/19/2013 8:53:01 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
So what happens to one of these highly accurate bombs when it enters the GPS jamming bubble surrounding a ship at a respectable distance? Does it reduce its accuracy from 1 meter to 10 meters? 100 meters?

I could tell you but then I would have to kill you.
46 posted on 09/19/2013 11:57:28 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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