Future Space War

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
...
In sci.space.tech Derek Lyons wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
In sci.space.tech Derek Lyons wrote:

snip question about satellite phones stopping working during ODS

However, there is no evidence of intent behind the jamming, leaving
unanswered the question as to 'intentional or accidental'. Also,
there is no apparent advantage to intentional jamming during a raid,
which lessens the likelihood that it was intentional. Given that the
phone communicated with other equipment, which then communicated with
the satellite, there are two legs vulnerable to interference.

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that iridium would provide
an improvised C&C system.

That's certainly true. But it's still a long leap from the facts (the
phone stopped working during a raid) to the conclusion reached by the
original poster (the military deliberately jammed the phone). Given
that the air raids went in behind an ECM/EW 'wall', it's impossible to
discern whether the jamming was intended, or a side effect.

There is of course the third possibility, that someone phoned iridium,
and asked them to turn of Iraq at 3AM Friday for 4 hours.

In 1991 I suspect that it was not the Iridium network.

Andrew Swallow