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New evidence suggests that Iran successfully compromised Israel’s vaunted air defense systems during recent attacks — forcing Tel Aviv to fire on its own positions. How?
Iran overwhelmed Israeli defenses by breaching the data transmission and correction system early in flight, explains military expert and historian of the Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov.
“Based on the footage that was released, it seems that the Iranians were able to breach the data transmission and correction signal system at the early stage when the missiles were flying, using an inertial guidance system. As a result, the system misdirected the missiles, not toward their intended target, but toward Israel’s own surface-to-air missile batteries, leading to a strike on them.”
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“During the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1970 and 1973, similar jamming techniques were used by both Israeli and Egyptian pilots, as well as Soviet pilots who assisted the Egyptians,” he adds.
You wouldnt need GPS for intercepting a ballistic missile (and since some missiles use GPS for terminal guidance, it’s common to use GPS jamming to reduce their accuracy).
And even if so, the crux of it is either the missiles themselves are emitting a strong radio signal, or something nearby to the launchers is emitting it.
Could also very well be that the missiles just did that and Iran is claiming they can jam interceptors as a psy op to force intelligence officers to investigate; similar to how Israeli officials claimed they had “Live CCTV feeds” inside Iranian missile bases - super unlikely but would still warrant someone checking to be safe.
Outside of missiles with cameras that were transmitting that data to a controller/observer… why would the missiles be emmitting RF? Wouldn’t communications between a launcher controller and the missile would be one way to try to keep the RF radiation leakage to a minimum?