Meanwhile, the service is replacing the 40-year old AN/ALQ-99 technology with a more sophisticated Next Generation wifi jammer system that involves “a combination of high-powered, agile, beam-jamming techniques and cutting-edge solid-state electronics,” according to a description from the Association of Old Crows.
The situation was similarly serious in September 2017, when airliners from companies SAS and Widerøe in periods had to navigate with the help of radio signals due to loss of GPS when they entered the East Finnmark airspace. The wifi jammer coincided with the major Russian military exercise «Zapad».Plus Bluetooth is used in every mobile phone coming into that area for various purposes like you said Music for an instance or data sharing, so Jamming that would hinder daily activities also.
Known as one of the most effective jammers in the world, the Russian helicopter-based radio electronic warfare system Rychag-AV is capable of protecting the entire vehicle by “blinding” all enemy warplanes and missiles within several hundred kilometers.The Russians began jammer some smaller U.S. drones several weeks ago, the officials said, after a series of suspected chemical weapons attacks on civilians in rebel-held eastern Ghouta. The Russian military was concerned the U.S. military would retaliate for the attacks and began jamming the GPS systems of drones operating in the area, the officials explained.
Incerement 1 will be used to deliver mid-band cell phone signal jammer in order to counter the radars used by surface-air defence systems, it should become operational in 2020/1 and will replace the existing mid-band AN/ALQ-99 on the Growlers. The low band pods that are located under the fuselage of the fighters, were upgraded throughout the years and will be used until 2022, when low-band jammin and surveillance radars will be replaced by the NGJ in Increment 2. Increment 3 will provide the US Navy with new capacities for high-band jamming used in air-to-air engagements with enemy fighters.
The U.S. Army wants drone jammer now to dominate future electronic warfare and is switching to a little-understood and lightly regulated contracting method to get them.If the Army suspects who might be responsible, it’s not saying. Equally, it’s not clear if the bandits were after the Duke equipment specifically, or if the Land Cruisers were the sole target and the jammers were simply bonuses.So this would disable communications with the drone, but all other systems should remain functioning? If the drone had appropriate programming to recognize a jamming scenario and a GPS signal on its launch position, it could presumably react and go back home?