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U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can't-hear-you-nya-nya-nya dept.

CNN has an article about a ground-based satellite jamming system that "uses electromagnetic radio frequency energy to knock out transmissions on a temporary and reversible basis, without frying components". Is this just another old school EM jamming technique, or something new? Of course they won't say, citing "operational security" concerns.

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  1. Like many other technologies by xThinkx · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The jamming technique fails miserably when the target satellites are equipped with the requisite "tin foil hat" defense system.

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  2. Re:Thin ice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd make one just to knock the fucking astra satellite out (they transmit the brain-rotting waves of the Murdoch empire across europe).

  3. Re:Thin ice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I want any war the US is in to be very unfair too. I want the US to lose in seconds, so that we in the free world can live in peace.

    The once-great USA has taken on most of the characteristics of its old enemies.