Agreed, I'm sure Boeing was not happy about this discovery. Not that the Ukrainians dropped the weapon from use, that it had so many troubles to get dropped.
Seen lots and lots of GPS jammers being hit by HIMARS.
Until they adapt again. Maybe using airborne Jammer then ?
If it flies, we introduce it to Patriot or S-300 or whatever the UkrMil has that's longer ranged.
This is a very small contract that falls under “small business innovation.” Call me when there is $10 billion in funding and prime contractors involved.
??? I know inflation is never ending but $10bn for the aquisition of small electronic devices seems excessive. You could buy around a thousand SM-3 IIAs for that price.
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Yes, but SDB2 is one of the last places I'd install the HOJ seekers, it's got other seekers it can use. JDAMs and SDB1 don't.JDAM-ER Winged Bombs With Seekers That Home In On GPS Jammers Headed To Ukraine
Plans to give Ukraine JDAM-ERs with new seekers come as Western precision-guided munitions are reportedly suffering from Russian GPS jamming.
Reading through the article, it would make a lot more sense to integrate a home-on-GPS jam seeker into an Excalibur 155mm guided shell than a JDAM-ER or SDB-II.
Needs a datalink between weapons and a way to call targets.
Raises a question as to how much an Excalibur can deviate mid-flight though.JDAM-ER Winged Bombs With Seekers That Home In On GPS Jammers Headed To Ukraine
Plans to give Ukraine JDAM-ERs with new seekers come as Western precision-guided munitions are reportedly suffering from Russian GPS jamming.
Reading through the article, it would make a lot more sense to integrate a home-on-GPS jam seeker into an Excalibur 155mm guided shell than a JDAM-ER or SDB-II. If highly localized GPS jammers were easy to triangulate you’d already be taking them out with the equivalent of counter battery fire, not a homing head glide bomb. If the jammers were regional, like the big one in Kalingrad, it would be the job for something like AARGM. This solution seems as if it would require a fairly permissive air defense environment.
An anti-GPS jammer capability is going to be necessary for even non-peer expeditionary warfare going forward, with the illustration of generic cruise missiles from the 2018 brochure suggesting as much. It’s not an easy puzzle to solve because localized GPS jammers can potentially be quite numerous.
I think the idea is that you fire a standard GPS at your target of choice plus a HOJ. They can either shut down the jammer and let the former hit the target or they can keep the jammer on and lose the jammer. Sort of like SEAD for GPS jammers, or SEJ if that's a thing.
A radar can see an incoming ARM missile but unless it is networked with radar, a GPS jammer wouldn’t? Moreover, I wouldn’t think that jammers would be heavily manned so who is there to shut it down? Do you really need an operator at a console? Aside from someone to make sure that the diesel generator is running?
Well, I was assuming there was some kind of communication between the radar and the EW station but maybe not. I guess the EW station just gets hit then if there's no operator to shut it down. The blast radius of a JDAM should cover the accuracy requirement minus dedicated terminal homing. After all, HARMs only have a 125lb warhead, so a 1,000lb warhead should more than suffice.
