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Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com)
john of sparta shares a report from Yahoo: American forces in Syria are increasingly facing attacks from Russian and Syrian electronic warfare weapons, as Moscow uses the conflict to test its future arsenal. General Raymond Thomas, head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, said that Syria has become "the most aggressive electronic warfare environment on the planet," Breakingdefense.com reported. Speaking at a geospatial intelligence conference in Florida, Gen. Thomas said that Russian and Syrian regime forces "are testing us everyday, knocking our communications down, disabling our [EC-130 aircraft]."
The Lockheed Martin EC-130 Compass Call is one of America's most advanced electronic warfare weapons. Based on the C-130 Hercules, the plane was developed to disrupt enemy communications, radar and command operations. The craft's presence in Syrian skies gives Russia the chance to test its weapons against the best the U.S. has to offer, whether directly or through its Syrian allies. Earlier this month, four anonymous officials told NBC News that Russia has also been regularly targeting smaller U.S. surveillance drones. One of those quoted said Russian operations were having a significant impact on U.S. capabilities. The sophisticated attacks were even successful against encrypted signals and anti-jamming devices, the official said. Slashdot reader john of sparta adds, "Well, it's war; not a surprise..."
The Lockheed Martin EC-130 Compass Call is one of America's most advanced electronic warfare weapons. Based on the C-130 Hercules, the plane was developed to disrupt enemy communications, radar and command operations. The craft's presence in Syrian skies gives Russia the chance to test its weapons against the best the U.S. has to offer, whether directly or through its Syrian allies. Earlier this month, four anonymous officials told NBC News that Russia has also been regularly targeting smaller U.S. surveillance drones. One of those quoted said Russian operations were having a significant impact on U.S. capabilities. The sophisticated attacks were even successful against encrypted signals and anti-jamming devices, the official said. Slashdot reader john of sparta adds, "Well, it's war; not a surprise..."
Well now, they're also jamming ENCRYPTED communication!
That doesn't just piss off Trump... it also pisses off all the sex traffickers that weren't on backpage.
Seriously, sometimes the press releases the military puts out are so stupid.
"We had a really good supply caravan. With hidden stuff under blankets. And then the Russians blew it all up,
even the stuff under blankets!!!!!"
Encryption is of no value when the underlying medium is sufficiently attacked.
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""are testing us everyday, knocking our communications down,"
They also knocked a moron as president down your throats.
The craft's presence in Syrian skies gives Russia the chance to test its weapons against the best the U.S. has to offer...
At the same time it also gives the US a sample of the best Russia can throw at them and the effect that has on US tactics which have relied on battlefield networking, large numbers of remote controlled drones and the apparent assumption that these communications will never be significantly disrupted or even completely disabled. Let's just hope that this lesson will be better heeded than those learned by the Americans who fought the Japanese in the run-up to WWII. Their reports were filed away or ignored by the Pentagon which ignored the threat because the reports contradicted their preconceptions about the Japanese.
From the beginning of the Russian attack against Ukraine, the Russian military has been using and testing its electronic warfare capabilities. They were even able to track an app Ukrainian artillery units were using to calculate their fire and use it to target the units.
The OSCE monitors routinely report their UAVs are being jammed while over Russian-occupied territory. Also, these monitors report on a regular basis the presence of Russian mobile electronic jamming vehicles.
Fortunately, as was stated further up, this jamming has given us a look into Russian procedures and allows us to find ways around it or at the least, to mitigate it. As a result, Ukrainian military units are able to communicate and coordinate their activities to target Russian military personnel on Ukrainian territory.
Turns out the Russian's secret weapon (in the best tradition of Russian engineering) is just a giant magnet.
It's all FAKE NEWS!
Yes, that is why the News is the enemy of the people, as we are told daily in our reports from the only trusted source in news.
The British and US military and governments are a bunch of bloody hypocrites. :-(
BTW, I'm British.
ALL governments are a bunch of bloody hypocrites, goes with the territory.
I could tell by your use of bloody, Ivan.
How dare they interrupt our electronic weapons with their own electronic weapons!
If this is such a concern, I've got a strategy the US can use to combat this: Get the hell out of Syria.
It's ridiculous to be offended/upset that someone is using countermeasures against the drones being used against them or their allies.
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In the New Amerika, ignorance is strength!
Sadly.. this isn't far off the mark. The thing is most of the people around me are beginning to wake up. Everyone I knew supported the original Iraq war. I haven't really spoke with anyone that supports this crap in Syria and I live in rural America. Most everyone including me is Republican.
We get to study their capabilities too.
The US actions in Syria aren't self serving, it only tried to serve Israel/Saudi Arabia and their self fulfilling paranoia vis a vis Iran. It would have been far cheaper for the US to just stay out of it and only fight Isis in Iraq (and actually fighting them straight from the start). Arming ISIS and then subsequently "bombing" them and then finally actually bombing them when their former pet dogs became a little too rabid has done nothing but bring grief to the US. It didn't even help their Sunni allies, Saudi Arabia is off worse in some ways.
In the end only Israel is laughing as it's hold on the Golan is strengthened. The US was played.
C-130 Hercules, the plane was developed to disrupt enemy communications, radar and command operations.
So it is ok for the US to put a bigass electronic weapon in a foreign country.
Russia has also been regularly targeting smaller U.S. surveillance drones
But they are pissed that the other side do the same thing to a few drones?!
The headline should be "US General Surprised That Enemy Actually Hit Back"
The weapons shipped to Isis&co are almost all Russian made, so an economic loss and economic aid to a supposed rival. Operation Inherent resolve costs 10 Million per day, slightly increased weapon sales don't really help. If your weapons are superior they will sell regardless and Saudi Arabia&co will be paranoid about Iran regardless, so they'll buy weapons regardless.
The US is a national entity, if traitors work to oppose that entity it's still not self serving for the US. Globalist institutions add little to the bottom line for the US and the trade deficit is a double edged sword at best ... not that there is a realistic alternative to the dollar, the Eurozone is a basket case and no one is going back to gold.
make it so hot that not anything electronic works anymore,
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Banksters and Corporate Managers are globalists. They dont care about Average Americans.
The author of the article makes it sounds as though some outrage is being visited on American troops in Syria. All that is happening is the the Russians and Syrians are using electronic tools to counter our own electronic surveillance. It's a little difficult for me to get upset about this.
Let's go have the beer
All the beer are belong to us.
That depends on which government you recognize. The entire point of the civil war is there are large swaths of Syria that do not recognize Assad's government.
Is ROT13 from WW-II useful for military now?
No, now they have to use double ROT13 encryption. I read somewhere that quad-ROT13 encryption is in development.
Just wait until some one brings back the "support our troops" bumper stickers because some how you cant support the troops if you're against the war.
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Budget season. Public presentation by a four star screaming "Crisis! Give me more money!"
Do electronic counter measures qualify as attacks, especially when the US military are flying war planes in sovereign Syrian airspace? Oh the US military are such poor, delicate victims of these evil Syrian radio waves. Why won't the Syrian military stop?
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Hahah I was waiting for the "Israeldidit" reply. smh...
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I suspect the Israelis are somehow monitoring this with great interest. They have the capabilities to have good performance in this area on both sides of the EW battle. And they would not be tipping their hand to either side.
If the attacks were having no real effect and the existence of any technology used to thwart them was secret, our personnel would be committing treason not to complain about how it is shutting us down. They might even crash or blow up a drone or have an EC-130 leave the scene or otherwise pretend to be jammed. With more critical techs, they wouldn't even be allowed to turn on the secret capabilities unless the situation was critical. For that reason, this article isn't worth reading. It is as likely to be propaganda written for the opponent's eyes as truth.
Syria, much like Iraq, is simply a testing ground for both sides to see how well their new toys perform outside of a controlled environment.
Neither side can show what they're really holding though lest they spoil the surprise.
As a result, these are the minor, expendable assets they're playing with atm.
Albeit, at the expense of Syrian lives.
Wish I could mod you 6 insightful.
I would also add that ISIS was created by the USA from the leftover Saddam Baathists after their pointless invasion of IRAQ. It's crazy to think that the 9/11 terrorists came mostly from Saudi Arabia, but bush attacks Saddam who himself was an ex CIA asset.
Saudi Arabia is a nasty country, promoting extreme Islam, but I hear they get a pass because they promised to support the petro dollar in exchange for protection.
You couldn't make this nefarious shit up.
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Seeing that a) the US is an invader in Syria and b) Russia is there at the invitation of the invadee a correct headline should be "Russia Is Defending against Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says"
Thank YOu. :)
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Those reports about the US battle ship blinded "electronically" by one (older) Russian military plane in the Black Sea and the suspicions, a similar technique was used by Russians and/or Chinese to make US battle ships crash into commercial ships in South-East Asia had been caused by electronic weapons and/or infiltration of the US systems seem to be true? Someone with business connections to Russians developing such systems told me 6 months ago that the Russians had such a system and/or remote access to the software of US weapon systems and even to some databases with personal data of all US military staff The Russians only would only be "kind" enough not to demonstrate that power in full size against the US because they think the US army is still somewhat useful for the unstable stability of the world: Imagine what would happen if the Russians would demonstrate that the US army is the emperor without clothes and that they can bring down any US weapon system easily from the distance? A world-wide "anarchy" would breakt out that would be even worse than everything the US caused since 1945.
If you know anything at all about Britain then you'll know that disparaging the PM is a national pastime. Doesn't matter who the PM is either.
The current incumbent seems to be pretty fair and reasonable towards muslims. She doesn't seem to hold biases towards or against any particular group, she wants authoritarian control over everybody.
This is excellent, do you have a whole book?
I love alternative histories, they open so many thought experiments.
Well, while the US are attacking enemies of the Syrian state then it's beneficial to let them get on with it.
You'll notice that the attack on the Syrian state was made with missiles fired from outside Syrian airspace, and defended nonetheless.
You're embarrassing other Americans with this pathetic paranoia and stupidity.
nobody would ever fly , i'm still not sure how quantum transmission is going to change the world other than instant data mirroring (which is probably already quite hardcore, i dont want to sound like the expert) over vast distances. I mean , i can imagine how it would help to build a colony somewhere round proxima centauri if you had matter synthesis handy AND a first ship to fly all the way there with the 3D printer (in a manner of speaking) as you could build a copy here and the exact same data would exist there but thats still way beyond star trek i think. If one side has access to quantum computing (which is gonna hack EVERYTHING, right) then how long will it take for all major players to have it, unless the first side strikes first and HARD (but not so hard as to destroy the whole planet) in order to eliminate all potential future opposition in some kind of quantum-blitzkrieg? Why wouldnt they be able to intercept with technology that doesn't exist yet and nobody really understands, do they ? I see more irony in the fact that they assume that it's safe to repeat afghanistan because in this case there's already an al-qaeda clone active so they dont have to worry about creating one, the big mistake from last time ... when has it ever been that the eagle and the bear go playing on a foreign court without actually poking at each other while both simply levelling the place as if their name was Dalek ?
they're doing it again
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
But the U.S. is not at war in Syria, right?
No boots on the ground, so it doesn't count.
Just like the first Sunday in December, 1941, at Pearl Harbor.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
So the US is bitching about Russia for doing to them what they are doing to the russians, but the russians seem to be better at it.. hahaha..
I didn't say Israel did it, Israel is the only one who came out ahead.