Whether it is jamming drones or jamming whatever, mostly this is interfering with anyone receiving gps signals to know where they are, or whether they are stealing financial information of people in Europe or the U.S. or Canada or Australia or whatever country, this is all pretty serious business.
Also, the U.S. has been out of "Cold War" mode since the early 1990s which it was in from the beginning of World War II. So in this Electronic warfare arena the U.S. is lagging behind on all levels. Our research and development in regard to stuff like this has dried up in relation to Congress and the President. However, it looks like we need more research into this type of problem both in regard to jamming drones or other devices that use GPS locators (like all cell phones on earth) and all wireless computer systems, you begin to see the potential problems when someone like Russia might decide to jam everything in any one country or area.
For example, this type of jamming equipment could jam all cell phone signals in the U.S. since Microwave relay towers are what carry cell phone calls. By jamming all cell phone towers in the U.S. for example, all cell phone traffic of every kind including text messaging would cease. And people would ONLY have land line phones to rely upon at that point. So, anyone with only a cell phone would be out of communication on any phone or text level for as long as that jamming continued.
To easily accomplish this they would only have to disable or blow up the gps stationary satellites over any single nation.
So, Russia's advances in Electronic jamming need to be matched now by the U.S. so we have this or greater capabilities too. You might consider this to be a new technology race and you would be right. If we are not armed for something like this you just have to imagine the potential consequences.
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