Danger Roomhas an awesomely comprehensive look at all the cell phone jammer the US war machine used during the Iraq War . Those jammers proved incredibly important in stripping insurgents of their most powerful artillery — the IED .
The US regime has spend $ 17 billion buy 50,000 jammer units with fantastic names like Warlock Green , Warlock Red , Warlock Duke , Acorn , and more . But in the beginning of the war , there was a lilliputian bit of a cat and computer mouse game between radio - frequency jammer and IEDs and jammer were far behind . They were too dull , they could n’t adapt as well and they could only offer protection of only a few yard . Hell , now and then two jammers would lock onto each other and cancel one another out .
But they got better . According toDanger Room :
The Navy sent to Iraq hundreds of electronic war specialists , to take the clamor produced by 14 variety of jammers into some kind of harmony . Protocols were ground , to allow one twist to send its signal and then go silent for a few millisecond , so another widget could send ; that allowed Warlock Red and Warlock Green to be box into a single , compounding unit … The intelligence activity medical specialist at the Combined Explosive Exploitation Cells got faster and quicker at analyzing which frequencies the guerrilla were using . That , in twist , allow the jammers to be update more quickly , so they could counter emerging threats .
A new generations of jammer were introduced too , they could cover a broad ambit of frequencies and do specific “ set - on ” jam which mean that “ rather than mix up a pass catcher with a modify version of its own signal , Duke had a series of built - in jamming responses , designed to fool very specific equipment . ” And as jammers cause better , the freedom fighter in Iraq largely abandoned the use of IEDs and death from IEDs knock off .
However , IEDs are still a serious trouble in the rest of the world so defense manufacturers are ramping up even novel engineering to combat them . It ’s basically going to be a brand raw computed tomography and mouse biz . take the entire excellent report atWired ’s Danger Room . [ Wired ]
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