Adam Rawnsley, War Is Boring: Kremlin Tech Jams Ukrainian Airwaves
The equipment is far too fancy to come from anywhere except Russia
Ukrainian troops are blind and deaf on the battlefield. Kiev’s members of parliament suddenly discover their cell phones don’t work. International observers watching the war lose contact with their drones and can’t do their job.
Welcome to Ukraine’s electronic war.
Throughout the conflict, the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have disrupted Kiev’s communications. It’s a problem that Ukraine—lacking secure communications systems and jamming equipment of its own—can’t counter.
And as with other forms of overt and covert support provided to Ukraine’s separatists, all eyes are on Russia as the source of the interference. The rebels’ equipment is just too fancy.
WNU Editor: The above video is showing Russian jamming equipment arriving in Crimea. The above post by Adam Rawnsley provides a good review on the importance that the Russian military places on jamming communications, and why the rebels have had a tactical advantage in recent fighting. On a personal note .... since the summer of last year .... at times I have had difficulty contacting my relatives in Kiev and Kharkiv through their cell phones .... even though they are hundreds of kilometers away from the front lines, and this has never been a problem in the past..
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