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| Navy plane targets Iraq's roadside bombs |
| 2007-06-14 |
| A secret aircraft that debuted in Vietnam and usually protects U.S. fighter jets has taken on a different and crucial task over Iraq — trying to stop the scourge of roadside bombs by jamming ground signals from mobile phones and garage door openers. The EA-6B Prowler is thought to be one of the most effective U.S. weapons against the bombs, the biggest killer of American service members in Iraq. But no one can be sure: Even supporters say its effectiveness is hard to measure. The ummah thanks you for exposing another successful infidel weapon. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #9 A B-52 can put out a jamming signal that will burn out half the electronics in a 200-mile circle, but it's kind of broad-band (everything gets fried). Still, it might turn out to be quite useful. From what I understand, there ARE vehicle-mounted jammers, but they're not as powerful as those of airborne ones, and lack the versatility and re-visit capabilities. Anything that works is fine by me, including EMP detonations. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-06-14 19:16 |
| #8 Shoulda held on to a few of these babes... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-14 16:16 |
| #7 Couldn't lead ground vehicles jam trigger signals? Most are planted by Sunnis, on the payroll of rogue elements of the Saud royal family. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-06-14 11:50 |
| #6 The lawyers just moved up on my list into a 3 way tie first place with the MSM and Donks. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-06-14 11:15 |
| #5 Don't have the link for this, but Glenmore is onto the right idea: apparently, while bomb ingredients are plentiful, skilled designers and assembly technologists are few amongst the unmah. The CIA did some calculating and decided that there were about a dozen or so in Iraq who were making most of the IEDs. So they wanted to push into the supply chain defective parts that would cause some premature explodulations. Whack the assemblers and you fix the problem, right? Apparently the legal beagles said we couldn't do it. Wouldn't be right. Idiots. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-06-14 10:48 |
| #4 We've got *lots* of old garage door openers in America. If anyone had told me, I'd have saved mine when we put in that new overhead motor thingy. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-14 09:18 |
| #3 More detailed reports had the A-6s doing just that. Spontaneous explosions of IED crews. Banging Trons in the Open Later, in Iraq, it was known as “banging trons.” Prowlers would orbit during night patrols, using their powerful electronic jamming gear to run through the spectrum in hopes of detonating IEDs while bomb layers were planting them. This was known to happen on more than a few occasions. One thing I wondered about when the IED threat first surfaced was the military using aerostats to continuously transmit trigger signals for the various types of radio controlled detonators. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-14 08:26 |
| #2 I don't want to JAM the IED trigger signals, I want to generate my OWN trigger signal! I envision just flying over town sending out rays of love and watching mosque basements where the bombs are being assembled blow up all over Baghdad. I think it is technically possible too, at least for electrically-detonated bombs (as opposed to percussion caps); I just don't know how controllable or at what range. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-14 08:06 |
| #1 Need to cut the supply from Iran is more of a priority! |
| Posted by: Paul 2007-06-14 05:57 |