A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
  • borth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    56·
    9 months ago

    “They think we make the attack on each receiver and as soon as one receiver attacks, they try to swap in another receiver and get a signal from another satellite. But when the missile enters the range of our system, we cover all types of receivers,” they said. “It’s physically impossible to connect with another satellite, but they think that it’s possible. That’s why they started with four receivers and right now it’s 16. I guess in the future we’ll see 24, but it’s pretty useless.”

    They’re just wasting so much resources and don’t even know what they’re doing. “Just keep putting more receivers, they can’t jam them all… can they?”

    • fullsquareEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      the theoretical reason for doing that is that if you have to split jamming power over broader frequency range, then for every n^2 times increase in bandwidth, here number of channels, range decreases n times. however gnss signals are so weak, it probably doesn’t matter, and if you’re adding extra power per channel, then it doesn’t apply

      now if missile detects that gnss is fucked with (signal too strong, wrong direction, physically impossible location), the correct thing to do would be to fallback to inertial navigation while accepting that accuracy decreases until gnss can be received again, if at all, and acted upon. theoretically speaking, it’s a matter of software update, better hardware also can help with that, so idk why would they release this. maybe there’s something that prevents this

      • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        They probably released it because the situation has changed in a way that makes the information irrelevant, probably because it’s in the past, or knowing it could somehow damage the enemy. Any communication from a country at war should be treated as propaganda. Or, they know Russia will treat this as misinformation, so they are free to tell the truth.

        • fullsquareEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          plenty of drone teams release geolocated videos day after they happen, but in this case i’ll guess that real sauce is classified top secret, that thing is outdated info and everyone is five steps ahead

          ahem

          triple the defense budget

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      There is also a Janet Jackson song that was breaking hard drives at one point… Sometimes music just works

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Baaaaaaby shark Doot Doo du-doot du-doo

      Baaaaaaby shark Doot Doo du-doot du-doo

      …

      • ⛓️‍💥@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        Bandera remains a highly controversial figure in Ukraine.[9] Many Ukrainians hail him as an example,[10][11] or as a martyred liberation fighter,[12] while other Ukrainians, particularly in the south and east, condemn him as a fascist,[13] or Nazi collaborator,[10] whose followers, called Banderites, were responsible for massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians during World War II.[14][15]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

        • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          Yeah that checks out… I probably should have kept digging deeper than just the song. I’m just tired of the whole “Ukrainians are all Nazis and Russia is the real victim” bullshit that gets peddled around here.

      • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comBannedEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        I see you’ve already been corrected by someone who explained you who Stepan Bandera was. I don’t blame you for not digging deeper than the wikipedia article of the song, but I encourage you not to antagonize people with concerns about Nazism and strong opinions about it on the internet.

        As for why the Wikipedia article of a song to Stepan Bandera doesn’t start with a warning about him being Nazi (or have a “Criticism” section at the very least), I hope that also makes you reflect on the bias in Wikipedia when discussing topics with geopolitical implications.

        Stepan Bandera is a well known figure that has been discussed heavily since the beginning of the war, and his rehabilitation as a “Ukrainian patriot” completely whitewashing Nazism is extremely concerning to socialists like me, and even to non-socialists in neighboring countries like Poland.

  • Carlos Solís@hub.azkware.net
    3·
    9 months ago

    Night Watch uses a jamming system called Lima EW […] Once the song hits, Night Watch uses Lima to spoof a navigation signal to the missiles and make them think they’re in Lima, Peru.

    Those jerks are dooming those missiles with the worst possible fate: thinking they’re being sent to Peru