U.S. Builds Ground-Based Arsenal to Jam Russia, China Satellites
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April 17 2020, 1:30 PM April 18 2020, 12:20 PM (Bloomberg) -- The new U.S. Space Force is building an arsenal of as many as 48 ground-based weapons over the next seven years designed to temporarily jam Russian or Chinese communications satellite signals in the opening hours of a conflict.
The first system, made by L3Harris Technologies Inc., was declared operational last month after years of development, and the Space Force has taken delivery of 16 of them. The service is also developing a new system, known as Meadowland, that’s lighter-weight, capable of adding updated software and able to jam more frequencies.
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