Here's an interesting piece of info I found on the web. Its from a slightly pro-US website, but its not a website that's prone to flagrant dis-information....
"While Iraq's use of GPS jammers did not succeed in the recent war (the jammers were quickly located and bombed), three years earlier, one of Iraq's allies did make successful use of GPS jamming against U.S. and British troops. In the Summer of 2000, American, British and French tanks were competing for a $1.4 billion contract to equip the Greek army. For some reason, the GPS gear in the American and British tanks never seemed to work correctly during the tests. It was later discovered that the French had brought a small GPS jammer to the tank evaluation area and rigged it so a French officer could turn the jammer on and off remotely whenever the American or British tanks were moving about. Eventually, Greece selected German tanks for its army."
Shocking eh, that the French could stoop so low. That's in my opinion even worse than US putting pressure on S.Korea to buy the F-15K...
Not being pro- or anti- anybody here, but would you mind posting the site URL which you've got the information from, since you've said that its from a website?
It was the US that was using GPS jammers in Iraq.....they could do so as well...they own the system.Anyway the GPS jammer would have little or no effect to the test as apart from the US IVIS the the only thing else that uses GPS is the map......and that didnt really matter much in terms of performance.
PS:The US use of GPS jammers in the reigon has be blamed for the disappearence of around 50 german tourist in the Sahara Desert as they were using GPS to guide them around(was in the ST a few weeks ago)
There's a good reason why gps jammers did not work in GF2, that's becos they're only good within the terminal phase of the bomb's flight, so even if they jam the gps, the bomb is still coming in...
There's ptobably a good reason why gps jammers did not work in GF2, that's becos they're only good within the terminal phase of the bomb's flight, so even if they jam the gps, the bomb is still coming in...