Posted on 05/29/2024 7:52:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Who cares if the missile systems work or not?
The only question is, is the workforce producing these systems diverse enough?
Is there sufficient level of DEI facilitators, communicators or trainers per X employee?
And do they recycle enough of their garbage?
Don’t for get the pronouns!
The MIC speaks.
Just judging from the excerpt, it’s not that the weapons don’t work, it’s that they don’t work against a technologically sophisticated enemy like Russia. Wasn’t it the ‘Lightworker’ and ‘God of All Things’ Obama who mocked Romney for expressing the idea that Russia might be an enemy? And, of course, Brandon, the new FDR, mocked Trump for expressing that China might be an enemy.
So we’re good. Our weapons work just fine against third-world adversaries. /s
There is a much more dangerous scenario in play here.
The Russians may not be jamming GPS (this is a VERY hard thing to do, the signal is coming from above and the receive antenna is generally designed to be hemispheric — meaning excludes signals not from upwards).
The more dangerous scenario is they have figured out how to localize EMP and disrupt circuitry. If they have, the sooner people just surrender the better, because there will be no defeating that.
Most of the learning curve is not in the hardware itself, it is in the countermeasures. The new frontier is in the electronic battlefield.
What I was thinking
America’s defense Dept resembles our health-care and education systems
Nominally private, but is really an oligopoly controlled tightly by Federal Government with all its political and ideological burdens, massively bloated bureaucracies, the corruption of political insiders and cronies, resulting in out-of-control costs.
Once again, in war the real winners are arms developers.
Gazing towards the future...Here is your sword and shield.
The Russians may not be jamming GPS (this is a VERY hard thing to do, the signal is coming from above and the receive antenna is generally designed to be hemispheric — meaning excludes signals not from upwards).
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GPS can be jammed. The signal is baseband spread spectrum so power requirements are reduced and multiple signals can be sent using the same frequency. Jamming is simply putting out enough power to mask the low-power GPS signals. Russians have been doing it for over 20 years.
Spoofing (false signals) the GPS is a little tougher but also being done within the last ten years or so if memory serves. That drives the navigation off so the target is missed. I’m not going to chase it.
You might try looking up navigation errors using GPS reported by aircraft pilots in the middle east regions. That’s the spoofing problem.
Insanity.
OF course. That was the plan all along.
As for weapons sent to ukraine:
Did the big guy’s family get 10%?
Have the military industrial stocks risen ( and paid good dividends)?
Are the government war mongers profiting?
The weapons are working as they are supposed to.
The Russians are likely spoofing the open civilian GPS so as to overwhelm the signal and misdirect weapons that rely on it. An encoded military GPS signal is used in current US weapons but those have not been sent to Ukraine, which has been mostly getting older model weapons with civilian GPS for guidance.
bkmk
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