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Any jammer that thrashes the entire EM spectrum? When a modern war big-enough to involve opposing forces of main-battle tanks kicks off, most of one's intuitio
by ISL 6y ago
Any jammer that thrashes the entire EM spectrum?
When a modern war big-enough to involve opposing forces of main-battle tanks kicks off, most of one's intuition about what is fair or possible goes out the window. This is particularly the case if the other side knows you have remotely-operated hardware. Blinding oneself can be a great strategy if your opposition is rendered both blind and ineffective.
Edit regarding armor: it is my impression that modern main-battle tanks are designed to survive attacks from everything up to, and sometimes including, weapons whose only purpose is to kill main-battle tanks.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThe amount of power that one would need to jam the electromagnetic spectrum would have to be massive though right? Seems like anything from a plane could take down a tank? I don't know how prevalent air forces are in countries though.
- ISL 6y agoJamming selective bands requires some care. Filling the RF environment with noise may only require a powerful generator and a suitably mis-configured spark-gap transmitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter
- nickthemagicman 6y agoYou would mess up all of your communication as well though. So its kind of a double edged sword. Additionally accompanying infantry can potentially use lasers to guide the tank. Or line of site drones that make full laser communications possible until the spark gap can be identified and destroyed.