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Any energy weapon seems unlikely. I recall asking a signals intelligence person once if jamming is ever a problem on battlefields. He said no because any jamme
by api 5y ago
Any energy weapon seems unlikely.
I recall asking a signals intelligence person once if jamming is ever a problem on battlefields. He said no because any jammer is emitting a signal and that tends to also say “fire missile here.”
Same would apply in this situation I would guess.
- not-elite 5y agoSounds right. [1] The mission patch is hilarious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel
- dendrite9 5y agoI felt a little dumb reading this, it just wasn't something I had thought about much. But radiating is useful location information even if you cannot tell what is being sent out. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33401/this-is-what-ground-forces-look-like-to-an-electronic-warfare-system-and-why-its-a-big-deal https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33401/this-is-what-gro...
- BlueTemplar 5y agoOh wow > Brose describes an incident in which someone, likely a member of Russia's intelligence community, spuriously called the mother of a Ukrainian commander and told her that her son was dead. She then hurriedly called his unencrypted cell phone to try to confirm whether this was true. When he called her back to tell everything was okay, Russian troops geolocated his forces' positions from his cell phone signal and hit them with a rocket artillery barrage, killing him in the process.