How To Kill A UAV
How To Kill A UAV
Surprisingly, the resistance can tap off the military's video feeds
As you can see in the specifications, the satellite link system uses the same civilian commercial
technology as television broadcasting companies. And the surprise is that the resistance and
others have tapped off the videos from the battlefield with simple commercial equipment.
But now the communication is perhaps encrypted. Read more about SkyGrabber.pdf
If you jam the communication, then the operator becomes blind and the UAV will fly around
until it crashes or the fuel is gone. But you must kill both links of communication to kill any
rescue.
There are a limited number of satellite channels available which means that the satellite link
becomes a bottleneck. The satellite is therefore used as a backup and jammer-rescue channel and
for single special operations from far away from the target, while C-band radio is used for
multiple simultaneous operations from near the targets. Every military base have their own
UAVs that must be operated through the C-band radio. C-band radio is also reported to be used
for take off and landing. Which means that the C-band radio is your primary target. The Cband radio is also easier to jam.
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According to the US Air Force, information from the internet is being used to sabotage satellite
signals critical to military operations.
This week's New Scientist reports that instructions on how to build satellite jammers, using
cheap equipment from home improvement stores and electronics fairs, are to be found on the
internet.
The US Air Force team, dubbed the Space Aggressor Squadron, was set up to look for weak
spots in satellite communications and navigation systems by playing the part of a potential
enemy.
"We ran a search on the Net and found there's quite a lot of information out there on how to build
and operate satellites but also, unfortunately, on how to jam them," says Tim Marceau, head of
the squadron. "Just type in 'satellite communications jamming' and you'll be surprised how many
hits you get."
Two rookie engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory were ordered to build a
jamming system using only a Net connection and whatever they could buy for cash.
For $7500, the engineers lashed together a mobile ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) high-power noise
source that they could use to jam satellite antennas or military UHF receivers. "It's just like
turning your radio up louder than someone else's," Marceau says.
The engineers built their home-made jammer using a petrol-driven electricity generator, wood,
plastic piping and copper tubing. The amplification and noise-generation electronics were
obtained at an electronics enthusiasts "swap meet".
"For very little money and very little sophistication, we found you could muck up
communications," says Marceau. Different components could be used to jam other frequencies,
such as that of the Global Positioning System.
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The US has created electronic-warfare squads capable of jamming enemy satellite transmissions.
Fearful of losing its advantage of superior technology resources over its potential enemies
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Due to the low received signal strength of satellite transmissions they are prone to jamming by
land-based transmitters. Such jamming is limited to the geographical area within the transmitter's
range. GPS satellites are potential targets for jamming, but satellite phone and television signals
have also been subjected to jamming. It is trivial to transmit a carrier to a geostationary satellite
and thus interfere with any other users of the transponder. It is common on commercial satellite
space for earth stations to transmit at the wrong time or on the wrong frequency and dual
illuminate the transponder rendering the frequency unusable. Satellite operators now have
sophisticated monitoring that enables them to pin point the source of any carrier and manage the
transponder space effectively.
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The U.S. Army is moving forward with a plan to order thousands of radio-frequency-jammer
devices to foil improvised explosive devices, even though terrorists' latest attacks in the
Afghanistan war have used mechanical, rather than radio, detonators, according to a report from
Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The jammers likely will cause problems with remotely operated aerial drones, . . .
According to experts, U.S. troops experienced jamming in Iraq in 2006 when the Warlock RF
jamming system had a detrimental effect on their communications systems and UAVs.
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Warlock radio frequency jammers in use in Iraq interfere with Army radio
communications and block controls needed to operate unmanned aerial vehicles, according
to a study of the service's initial effort to transform divisions into modular brigades.
A radio jammer can also be used to deny the enemy to call in air support
when you attack. Send out a team to jam the airbase radio before you attack
High voltage
The high voltage can be generated from a 12 volt car battery in the same way that high voltage is
generated to the car's spark plugs. You need a coil and an oscillator circuit that turn on and off a
transistor switch. Connect a high voltage diode from the coil to a high voltage reservoir
capacitor.
You can also use a motorized electro-mechanical switch.
The only trouble is that you must keep in mind that the capacitors and the coil can be destroyed
from overvoltage. Which means that you must somehow turn off the switch if the voltage
becomes too high.
But very often the circuit (spark gap) will control the voltage balance itself if it is correctly
dimensioned.
Groundplane reflection
As you perhaps know, you can reach and jam receivers at longer distance away if you put your
C-Band transmitter antenna as high up as possible. (don't care with paraboles)
This is caused by the fact that the radiowaves travel two separate ways from your transmitter.
A direct way through air.
And a damped and phase inverted reflected way, bouncing from the ground. Which cancels
out most of the power from your transmitter.
This damping of your transmitters power can be avoided if you put the transmitter antenna high
up.
And also try get as good electric ground connection as possible for your transmitter.
If you connect the antennas through a shielded coaxial cable from a bunker at a safe distance
then it becomes almost impossible to destroy the jammer with homing missiles, and too easy to
repair a piece of cheap bent metal antenna.
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It's hard to analyze, but I think that the cable capacitanses and the delay lines help fire the sparkgaps in the right order, from the left to the right. The capacitanse in the spark-gap itself is small
compared to the cable capacitanse. Try speculate about how a shorter or longer cable between
each spark-gap will change the firing of the spark-gaps. And if any resistors are necessary for
discharging of insulated capacitanses ?
The impedance of a coaxial cable is a function of relative dimensions and the dielectricum
(insulator) used. Very easy to calculate. It's almost only mechanical work to build the jammer.
The right side pin is the antenna pin in the feed-horn. But the question is how to connect it in
order to discharge all the reservoir capacitanses. It can't be hanging in the air. It must be
connected to ground somewhere inside the feed horn.
And you must also try analyze how the length of each coaxial section affects the output through
reflections and standing waves. Especially the last section.
at the satellite.
Feed horn
The construction above is from a homebuilt "CanTenna" for 2.4GHz, that can be used as a feed
horn to a parabolic antenna.
And you can use the same construction for your jammer at 14 GHz if you change the size.
Note the tiny antenna pin mounted on top of the coaxial cable connector.
Horn antennas have been used for long time to send and receive microwaves.
It's a simple construction, but the parabole is more effective if you want higher gain. And want to
focus the output power in a narrower beam.
Hydrogen gas is used in e.g radar thyratrons where a current pulse with very steep flanks is
desired, since in hydrogen the build-up and the recovery time are much shorter than in other
gases.
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Hydrogen is used in tubes used for very fast switching, e.g. some thyratrons, dekatrons, and
krytrons, where very steep edges are required. The build-up and recovery times of hydrogen are
Links :
Homebuilt CanTennas for 2.4 GHz
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70 pS rise time pulse generator that uses a mercury filled reed relay
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100 pS
Horn antennas
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Satellite information
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lamp.
The TWT is an amplifier (not an oscillator) and doesn't generate any output frequencies if it has
no input signal. And you need more equipment.
Block converter
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