07-03-2023, 08:44 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-elect...00083.html
Interesting timing on this article. The fact that JDAMs were vulnerable to Russian jamming has been common and public knowledge since Iraq used them to defeat the attack on Saddam Hussein at the start of the second gulf war. There has been a little improvement on this front, but only a little. JDAMs are good because they are cheap, and making their GPS receivers more robust and capable costs money. OTOH, there is no excuse that Russian jamming systems are allowed to "live" in Ukraine. They are easy to find and relatively easy to kill. The fact that isn't happening is very, very strange IMO. FWIW, cluster munitions are ideal for that task.
Interesting timing on this article. The fact that JDAMs were vulnerable to Russian jamming has been common and public knowledge since Iraq used them to defeat the attack on Saddam Hussein at the start of the second gulf war. There has been a little improvement on this front, but only a little. JDAMs are good because they are cheap, and making their GPS receivers more robust and capable costs money. OTOH, there is no excuse that Russian jamming systems are allowed to "live" in Ukraine. They are easy to find and relatively easy to kill. The fact that isn't happening is very, very strange IMO. FWIW, cluster munitions are ideal for that task.