Electronic GPS signal jammer devices are increasingly the focus of future warfare

Army Forces Command will get “several” armored trucks packed with radio jamming gear to test new tactics and, if necessary, deploy overseas in a crisis.

Widely deployed in the Army and Marine Corps, Duke began life as a low-power, short-range cell phone signal jammer to keep radio-controlled roadside bombs from going off. (CREW is a nested acronym for Counter-RCIED (Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device) Electronic Warfare). But Duke evolved into a much more sophisticated system capable of detecting and disrupting a wide range of signals, from cellphones to the control links for enemy drones, as tested in the joint Black Dart experiments.

Will a can of mud or paint thrown at the cameras sensors, and/or an rf jammer cause the driverless trucks to drive off the road?Be really hilarious* if it were remotely hackable, and supply trucks just drove away.* not remotely hilarious if you depended on the supplies of course.

The use of anti-drone gun jammer weapons

The system is a lightweight “soft kill” counter-drone jammer which is designed for use on remote weapon stations (unmanned gun systems) as part of a combined “hard kill/soft kill” layered system. According to the company it is system-agnostic and can be integrated with any third party remote weapon station, thus allowing manufacturers of unmanned weapons systems to add a “soft kill” option to their existing products’

Possible candidates include the Zhitel R-330Zh electronic intelligence and wifi jammer system, the Borisoglebsk-2 RB-301B electronic warfare weapon system and the Krasukha-4 jamming system. As for the automated command and control system which might be deployed to Syria, my guess is that the Polyana D4M1 would be a prime candidate. Whatever the actual mix will be in the end, I would argue that this presents a more formidable capability than additional S-300 launchers. Sure, this is apples and oranges, but we have to keep in mind that these electronic warfare systems are extremely powerful force-multipliers which can dramatically increase both the Russian and the Syrian defensive capabilities by jamming GPS signals, datalinks, cellphone signals (used for targeting and intelligence), radars, by creating false targets and even by destroying electronics. Electronic warfare is one field in which the Israelis have always enjoyed a huge superiority over their Arab victims and the fact that this has now changed is an extremely distressing development for them, even if they will never admit it.

The S-400 air defense system is reportedly capable of engaging up to 36 targets simultaneously. It can purportedly fire missiles at a rate 2.5 times faster than its predecessor, the S-300, and can engage stand-off jammer aircraft, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, and both ballistic and cruise missiles.

Instead, you can use protocol mixing and RC manipulation to be able to pinpoint exactly the drone that you need, and turn it on or off, or send it home, or make it under your control.