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2018-04-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russia reportedly jamming US drones in Syria

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-10 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 And, the flying iPhone is next.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-10 11:14|| 2018-04-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Try jamming a U-2...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-10 11:30|| 2018-04-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I feel that the ability to jam drones is too much of an advantage to reveal in piss-ant, brush war - but maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-10 13:28|| 2018-04-10 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 So we are definitely no longer fighting just ISIS. Its now going to be the Ruskis, Iran's Mad Mullahs, the Turks, and Pencil Neck.

Now I understand Trumps wish to leave it all to them. Except the Saudi's would be next with support for Yemen.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-10 14:05|| 2018-04-10 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if the AGM-88 can be tuned to attack the jammer? Unlike a GPS omnidirectional antenna, the HARM should be able to focus on a point emitter.

Posted by Alistaire Clunter7986 2018-04-10 14:29|| 2018-04-10 14:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep. Jammers are noisy fuckers that our anti-radiation missiles would tear to shreds.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-10 14:38|| 2018-04-10 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 If a drone gets jammed up it needs to fail over to a pre loaded program that will lead it to strike a target area, if that is the mission, or that will bring it back home without guidance.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-10 18:48|| 2018-04-10 18:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Syria is a complex battlespace. The U.S. would be retards to believe that their drones would work in that space. Put an F-18 into the space, and no one would fuck with that. But put in some dopey drone -- yah that is our bitch.

Just shut up and fix the U.S. encrypted comms.

Posted by rammer 2018-04-10 21:54|| 2018-04-10 21:54|| Front Page Top

#9 What happens if you release a flock of cheap, jam-homing kamikaze drones?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-04-10 22:23|| 2018-04-10 22:23|| Front Page Top

#10 A caravan arrives one day
From snowy land of spammers,
Its camels bearing many sacks
Of rusty scythes and hammers,
And such a song and dance is seen
That each Mohammed clamors,
"By Allah, I need better drones
And lotsa Russian jammers!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-04-10 23:14|| 2018-04-10 23:14|| Front Page Top

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