IRAQ: SMART BOMBS OUTWITTED?
The American military is depending on satellite-guided bombs to make precision strikes in Iraq. But Iraq may have obtained hundreds of Russian jammers that can interrupt such targeting, Fox News says. About 80 percent of U.S. weapons that would be used in a war with Iraq would be directed via satellites. (via StrategyPage).
OR MAYBE NOT: "CPO Sparkey," a radar engineer, says that this story is all wet. Satellite-guided bombing systems have anti-jamming capabilities built in, he contends.
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