[MilCom] Iraq Remotely Detonated IED's Countermeasures?

[lrk]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Ken wrote:
> I'm sure most of you have been following the activity in Iraq..  A 
> signficiant amount of military casualties have been caused by improvised 
> explosive devices along the roadway.
> 
> At best what can be pieced together from the news, these devices have been 
> remotely detonated. Just wondering if the majority of these were a wired or 
> wireless remotely detonated devices & perhaps what frequency range the 
> transmitters are in?
> 
> Additionally, I thought I read (perhaps on fedcom) that in the presidential 
> motorcade there was a vehicle with specialized radio equipment that could 
> jam wireless controlled explosive devices...
> 
> I wonder IF this technology was every deployed to Iraq?

Yes, probably before the motorcade versions. 

All I know is from the news sources but I have lotsa those. The Las Cruces
Sun-News recently had an article about White Sands engineers working on 
such jammers.


Most IEDs apparently are constructed from devices like car alarms and garage
door openers, probably in the UHF mil band or the common European 433 Mhz
freq. 

The jammers can easily block such signals but it is a spy-vs-spy game so 
each improvement results in improved countermeasures.

Thus putting a good blocking signal on 433 MHz offers a signal to use for
attacking the next vehicle with a jammer.


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