https://www.businessinsider.com/us-himars-completely-ineffective-against-russian-jamming-report-2024-5

Jamming is a very inexpensive tactic as the software is relatively cheap and it can take out munitions worth tens of thousands of dollars, Defense One reported.

  • halfpipe [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, turns out all of this high tech satellite guided shit can be easily defeated by electronic warfare if its used against an enemy that has the time and resources to adapt to it. This is the first time anyone had a chance to figure that out though, because the US has only ever used it against unarmed farmers and goat herders.

    Well, at least it's not as bad as the F-35, the multi trillion dollar jet that fails to both electronic warfare and rain.

    • Droplet [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      You forget that we still have Top Gun Maverick with his squadron of F-18s that will come in and save the day for America even when everything else has failed.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      1 month ago

      This is the first time anyone had a chance to figure that out though

      This is what I don’t get though, I feel like the average hexbear history buff could have told them that.

      • SchillMenaker [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        The average hexbear history buff doesn't have millions or billions bet on people ignoring that fact.

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      So when people were frothingfash about musk being a secret Putinist it was really just starlink being jammed?

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    All right!

    We're jamming

    I wanna jam it with you

    We're jamming

    And I hope you like jamming, too

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Bit tangential but one of my favorite burger-brain trivia facts is that time the USA developed a grenade shaped like a football because they figured burger troops would be more familiar with throwing it. Pure burger moment.

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            1 month ago

            Never underestimate the burger brain. They'll invent Mt Dew flavored pizza before trying foreign food.

            • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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              1 month ago

              I remember an article about how American soldiers stationed in Germany were excited because American fast food chains were arriving near their base so they wouldn’t have to eat local food lol

  • radiofreeval [any]
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    1 month ago

    Who cares if it doesn't work? The point is to be expensive and stimulate the economy.

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    1 month ago

    I thought that HIMARS were the ultimate superweapon of the white race? How is this possible?

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      No that's the next wunderweapon, the Shadow Storm missile (don't pay attention to it's initials or the sonnenrad on the side)

        • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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          1 month ago

          It's just a joke playing on how there are a bunch of pics of Ukrainian soldiers wearing fascist symbols, I haven't seen an SS missile with a sonnenrad painted on the side

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Shame they didn't have a bachelor in physics to explain how rf signaling works

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Don't give them any ideas, they'll start making wire guided himars with comically large spools of wire.

        • mayo_cider [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Although this would provide some infrastructural reparations by leaving fiber optic cable laying everywhere

        • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Yes, but only for short range stuff like atgms, I'm imagining a himars with 300km of wire spooled up to avoid nefarious Russian jamming

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    You know what can't be jammed? An artillery shell. Armed with that knowledge I am confident the West will continue dumping money into wunderwaffen

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Except some of them can -- some of the US shells use GPS and whatnot to help guide it to the target.

      But also the latest "aid package" to Ukraine gave them less than a full day's worth of artillery shells. The US is getting fully tapped out.

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Fake news. Everyone knows Russians are digging trenches with spoons and using metal cans attached to strings for communication