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figured your first topic would have been low earth orbit [ trivia over 40 ,000 satellites ] ... as long as you know part of plan 4 winds [ at war and you pizz me off ] ..., will make low earth orbit dead ..battle plans all posted ... so long musk link .. soo long all usa military low earth toy's [ cute little shuttle ] ..btw ... it does get much worse >>>>>
Some hearing aids pickup all kinds of crazy things, cars that are turned off but have active electronics & sensors. Ultrasonic insect repellent devices. It’s interesting for sure.
Arrogance and hubris. Soviet Radioelectronic combat was a serious threat in the 80s and the RFA didn't abolish EW for 15 years like the US Army did. The US Military decided that precision weapons were the solution in 1970s and assumed that nobody could practically jam them after 1990 so basically the US stopped developing other guidance systems for a few decades. And hasn't managed to build/field the user hardware for anti-jam after eventually, after long delays, deploying M-code on the sats. But hey, it worked fine against 3rd world insurgents and terrorists, and we would never be fighting a competent military backed by a large industrialized country, so why spend the money?
@@dtrain1634 in this war? Sure. But don't draw comparisons from Ukraine to a potential war with US involvement. Even in a contested airspace, HARMs are a threat to any EM emitter. Here's a hint: the USAF generally doesn't contest airspaces. Others try (with varying success). If the US fights a war, any EM emitter is comparable to Ralph Wigum.
It's way more convenient to use a map on your smartphone even without any navigation. You get multiple layers with instant switch, search, endless coverage, multiple zoom levels, quick measuring tools, marking tools, etc. An equivalent with paper maps is having a navigator guy with you with a backpack full of maps and a map tablet with physical tools. And even then you get old data and it's very hard to collate multiple sources on the fly
@@NJ-wb1cz its all nice and good, until you running out of energy or same shrapnel make holes in digital systems. Techs are good, but papers survives much more
You see, when the missile gets close, the Russians press X at the right time to affect a dodge roll and the most cunning Russians can leave it until the last second, then do a parry with their tactical shovel.
I'm in Europe, 600 km from Kaliningrad, 2000 km from the border of Ukraine. Since the war started Uber app that was pretty precise with figuring out my location (as in: where to pick me up) now misses by hundreds of meters. Just a small fact of life, you can make your own conclusions.
@@albripibut whenever you need to use Google maps it still cant be precise. As for me, I'm so used to maps and navigation, i almost don't know how to get to different places in my city
@@TimMuller-c3q All of the hints are in the open source space, hence why I know about them. You can find them. It's nothing too sexy although it matters more for real-world performance vs on-paper performance, as usual for NATO vs OPFOR stuff.
@@TimMuller-c3q cannot be mentioned?? Oh that's right, those sacred secrets of the US that of course makes it better than anyone else, we just can't know it, but we just have to believe in it
Fun fact, you actually need 4 satellite signals... time is also a variable. for more accurate and cancelling signal propagation interferences, 6-7 is required for google map level navigation. if you are fast moving missile, more satellites signals are required to remove doppler effects
with 1 sat your accuracy is an infinite sphere, with 2 sats your accuracy is an infinite disc, with 3 sats your accuracy is an infinite line, with 4 sats your accuracy is a point. I'm guessing you ideally want a few more than that in case some of the signals are not getting through at any given time due with clouds, obstacles, etc..
@@shadmansudipto7287 Only if you have a synchronized super-accurate clock, if not you need to also compute the clock as variable. This means you have a 4 unknowns so you need at least 4 equations to solve it, generally speaking.
Once again you have hit the mark...!!! You answered, in a simple but accurate way, my questions about military jamming-spoofing activity. I am a former officer (a.u.c.) of the Italian Air Force, and your channel is simply fantastic. Well done, congratulations, you manage to communicate difficult concepts in a completely clear and simple way...!!! Greeting from Rome
@@AutomHeshA7 logically 3 is enough, factually 9 is needed to get constantly accurate positioning. you can try it yourself: track cars for 24/7, compare the acuracy based on the number of satellites received.
@@ViceCoin, from what I hear, that's the direction everyone is headed. Starlink is just the beginning. Drone-type craft will proliferate extremely-low earth orbit and provide distributed communications support.
As a former soldier, every now and then I find my graduation picture from basic training. There I am with my fellow soldiers. Our faces look more like boys and barely young men. It is a sobering thought that it is these young men we may have to send them to war. Enjoy your tech analysis and briefing. They remind me how our battlefield have become more deadly than it was for me 40 years ago.
The reason why INS based weapon systems include GPS is because relative to the INS, GPS receiver is quite small and cheap. It augments the INS system by providing up to date position information, allowing the INS to correct/reset the accumulated drift. For the weapon itself, outside of shielding/directional antennas, one of the best solutions to jamming is actually speed. Since INS drift is a function of time, the faster you go, the less time you spend within range of the jamming systems. When you get up to cruise missile speeds, 20-30 mile effective range of jammers, is small enough to where rather cheap and small(yet ITAR controlled) sensors can achieve a couple meter accuracy. The other solution to jamming is image recognition for terminal guidance. Using IR sensors and AI image recognition will allow target detection/tracking easily at hundreds of meters. That VASTLY decreases the required INS accuracy, while also allowing for the tracking of moving targets. INS accuracy could open up into the hundreds of meters! For the battlespace, the solution to jamming is relatively small long endurance UAV's with directional antennas, and some radio hardware. They'd work in sets of 3 or more to triangulate the jammers. Passing the targeting data to many various ground/air weapon systems. Think of it as a counter artillery for jamming. I wouldn't be surprised if In future war, the poor soldiers who get assigned to the units who deploy jamming equipment, will having some of the shortest life expectancies on the battlefield. I'd bet a good bit of money that whatever agency is operating the USA's ginormous SIGINT satellites, knows every single time, when a jammer is powered up.
I was surprised he didn't mention visual guidance. The Lancet has the hardware necessary to segment roads and rivers out of images and then use a particle filter and reference maps to infer its position. Sure, the accuracy isnt 3 meters but you can use computer vision to id targets once you get there. Regarding targetting the jammers, the solution could be to have teams of several jammers assigned to one area. If they constantly move and switch with each jammer on for less time than it takes for a harm missile to reach them you would have to carpet bomb the area to deal with it.
@@hanskrause8315 sure, they could be mobile. But then they’re much more expensive, and need to be manned. if you want to switch them, you’ll need 3-4 times as many as you’d otherwise need for a given area. So, your counter to the counter, is multiplying jamming costs by probably 10x. That’s not the right move. AI target recognition using IR sensors will easily target a moving vehicle. The time it takes a missile to travel the 20 mile effective range of jammers, is not much time. 90 seconds is not enough to use your jammer, pack it up, scoot to the next location, set everything back up, and then turn jammer back on. All of that is at least 10 minutes.
@@Jordan-dt6qx We must be missing something. Otherwise it just seems too easy to destroy jammers. If you had 6 jammers (needing 30 seconds to raise their masts) jamming 30 seconds each moving at 30km/h between jamming sessions, each jammer would be 1km away from its last jamming session when it turned on. Fuel and logistics costs are for sure greater but if I were an ew soldier that's certainly what I'd want.
Antennas have broad beams an modest gain. But even simple antennas have very sharp and deep nulls. The most effective countermeasure is to point a pattern null at the jammer.
All that will happen is that the older GLSDB and SDB seekers will be upgraded with more jam resistant GPS receivers, improved INS and Digital Image Scene Correlation like the French HAMER bomb. It's not the end of the weapon and it will be back soon.
I like how people say that Russia have never achieved air superiority and yet the FABs were dropping by the hundreds every day. Meanwhile JDAM and other western smart munitions rarely got used. And even got jammed when they do.
FABs don't need to be accurate as they are area bombing basically. Saturating an area with bombs. The gliding ability is important to Russia as it gives them safe distancing to drop. The FAB "accuracy" isn't really important as Russia doesn't mind flattening everything in Ukraine and the payload is so big that 100m, 200m even 300m is "accurate" enough to destroy a building/strongpoint. Ukraine needs accuracy more so than Russia to target specific units. They don't won't to destroy their own country in the process.
Storm Shadow/SCALP old weapons on the shelf for years have GPS Inertial and terminal vision of target. You are not jamming that and you get 500 KG of Military grade explosive. Air Burst or penetrate as deep as you want. They fly low and follow terrain. Use the proven British/French old gear. Tech.
@@leod-sigefast come on 300m? 30-50m can be devastating for people located inside the concrete building but above that they will be safe. And ruskies are dropping them within the 0-30m range. They are extremely effective.
I don't understand the problem with inertial guidance. You said it's good for short ranges, and that's all its needed for, since the range of GPS jamming is relatively short, as you pointed out. So why not just use GPS for initial guidance and an inertial system (which can be updated from the GPS during the pre-terminal flight phase) for the terminal guidance?
EW isn't something Russians have abolished. Hell, understanding the physics behind information transfer is what Russians are adept to dealing with even in nuclear war, so i am really surprised USA didn't include anything to deal with the electronic warfare in their top of the line guided bombs. Unless they were really only meant to deal with countries who don't have EW capabilities.
The Raytheons and LMs only do the minimal work required to fulfill the contracts. If they know a GPS receiver with no serious anti-jamming protection will pass then that's what they are going to sell.
The Russian-Ukraine war is not a good showcase of American made weapons, as such they’re not good showcases of western weapons over all which are to an extent designed with the American army in mind. IE the EU nation would be fighting a 3rd world country without the US and they won’t need the anti jamming capability. Or they’re fighting the Russians, which will mean the Americans are involved. As such American air power is heavily factored in, as well as their SEAD capabilities. These jammers would not survive long in the way they’re currently employed in that threat environment and we would more likely see sporadic jamming of focused areas of the front to cover big pushes. Don’t forget the 2 most potent air forces in the world both belong to the USA lol.
Ukraine has not received anything that would be considered top of the line. The tech is around 2004-2005. JDAMs and so on are mostly stock that needs to be spent.
During your presentation, I had visions of myriads of ‘air tags’ being dispensed in flight. Find my keys, find my dog, find my stolen trailer. GNNS Chaff.
Dear Millenium7, I'm not writing to disagree with you regarding internal guidance. I just want to point out that even JDAM incorporates inertial guidance. This is actually what my business is working on. The problem with inertial guidance is not inherent drift. This is easy to compensate with calculation. The problems are cost, size, and complexity, in that order. Laser-mirror based gyros can be made very small and so can the computers and batteries but at a rapidly escalating cost. Multifaceted systems are coming, with basically inertial guidance on a chip, just not today.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
This is the best prospective answer to the jamming problem. Otis could try to integrate the quotient of the vector matrix of the positions that we're over that of the positions we are not. Then ffsletmein4321 and signiore A could claim the Fields Medal and Otis himself the Peace Nobel Prize. Hilariously exceptional comment this one above.
The Airforce spent money on home-on-GPS-jammer seekers in 2014. This certainly seems like a pretty straight forward application. In the last couple of months the US Air Force is spending a modest amount of money to actually get these built. I am surprised this weapon isn’t already in the US inventory.
They probably are - they probably sent the "old" stuff to Ukraine and kept the new stuff for themselves. I mean, they're sending F-16s, not F-35s, right?
The United States wasted its money and that of much of the western world in Afghanistan for No real result. This a whole range of weapon systems didn’t get the upgrades they needed. For instance the stinger missile is being jammed by DIRCM. this was all predicted in their ass Solutions but as I said the money went into Afghanistan and fixing the soldiers injuries as much as they could be fixed
AstroInertial Navigation units are still in use on the B-2 bomber, they’ll probably be on the B-21. I wouldn’t rule out other military aircraft as the SR-71 used it as did the B-51.
Some universal military diktats. 1) A space based transmitter signal can always be overpowered by a ground based transmitter. 2) Multiple ground based transmitters can be built for the cost of a single anti-radiation missile. 3) HARMs currently are out ranged in theatre by Russian AD and AA missiles. 4) The US has less HARMs available than the number of Russian jamming/spoofing systems deployed at this time (not all are vehicular).
@@Statueshop297I think you missed his point about jammers are much less expensive than HARM missiles. You’re going to run out of HARMs before you run out of emitters.
@@Statueshop297 you do know HARM targets the antennas of such emitters, don’t you? The main equipment and crew could very well be set up at a distance to the antennas, making that very expensive missile hitting a very replaceable part. Not to mention these jammers and spoofers could very well be autonomous unmanned equipment. I What HARM is useful for is suppress radar ahead of an attack that would take out much more valuable assets, Not to deal with numerous expendable machines. Also that thousands of HARM inventory took years to build up, and would be expended in a few months at most if used as liberally as you suggested.
@@Statueshop297 well, these things do make taking out the air defense more difficult. Plus, they make taking out other ground target even after the air defense has been taken out more difficult. Taking these out is not as simple as you make it, as most cheaper air to ground smart weapons ARE GPS dependent. Those that aren’t are almost always more expensive, sometimes exorbitantly so.
i mean most "modern" southern italian are descendent of mostly classical greeks settelers and some italics people.. (bruti, samnites, latins etc etc) only in recent centuries there was an influx of albanian (who the albians actually are is another issue) and a small minority of Normans there was some sprinkle of iberians and arabs but even if the spaniard owned the land for a while they didn't promote colonization plans of any kind.. most northern italian will have more celtic and german traits given the amount of germanic people that settled there in the late antiquity.. Also is important to notice that by the roman reconquista of Italy (VI-VII century) the population of the entire peninsula dropped below 1ml. That factor alone made the successive migrations of germanic people more influential on the population mix.
I'm a kind of guy who is more on the "cautious" side of personality. I really really love fool-proof and rugged things. Those magnetic rock formations on the earth, all sorts of gyroscopic navigation and celestial navigation really really impressed me. You can't jam a wire-guided AT missile, you can't jam the location of sun either. It seems to be that due to historical and geopolitical reasons, the Russian military tends to think a design thing in my way rather than the "cool" way. For goodness sake, the jam everything so hard that they jam themselves too, just to make sure that their enemy doesn't have the advantage either 😂
They did not forget how to determine one's location and the target's location, how to determine the direction of artillery guns in traverse and elevation, how to plan, organize and execute the operation of the elements of the fire support system with satisfactory low error level and time consumption, using analogue methods.
There are solutions for this problem. Many aircraft like a B-52 B2 will carry a star tracker accurate to 180m or so. Digital image scene correlation works so does ground mappingradar.
Russian krasnopol shell uses diferent aproach. No gps signal, itis guided by laser marking from a drone. So while they saturate area with jamming, they continue to operate with impunity
@@ldkbudda4176 They have all ben scraped by september 22. No new gifts arived. West and consequently Ukraine do not have shell that is equivalent of Krasnopol.
As a 1980s Misslie Tech on Ohio class SSBNs loaded with the temporary UGM96-Trident 1 C4 designed as an upgraded backfit missile for the previous Posiden in 640 class SSBNs, we used an Inertial navigation unit, a computer that recieved our position on the earth provided by a SINS or ships inercial navigation set using the previous 3 axis gyro paired with a state of the art ESGM Electro static gyro measurement system. The missile guildence system had a camera that provided mid coarse corection with a star sighting reference before ejecting REBs based on the targeting program. Our RVs were accurate to 300 meters from 4500 miles distance. Thats not the modern definition of Precision guilded munitions but with a 100KT warhead, thats pretty accurate for the 1980s. There was no functional GPS at the time.
It's nice to find honest and well-researched information for a change. I can't be bothered with mainstream media for anything but what not to believe. Great video as usual.
You are forgot about most used anti-jamming technology widely used for now by Russians and Iranians. Controlled reception pattern antennas (CRPA) are active antennas that are designed to resist radio jamming and spoofing.
Very, very interesting. I was an electronics tech in the RAN. I always found navigation equipment fascinating. Also, nothing can beat the complete FU of a Lieutenant with a map.
I am a radio frequency and network engineer, at least I was in my past. I worked in the field, and I have encountered many things that stop radio signals and interact with them in unexpected ways. Pine trees, for example, they may as well be made of copper. For some reason nothing can penetrate pine trees. If you don't want to get hit by a GPS guided bomb, hide in a coniferous forest lololol
@@Mountain_bonker yeah, it's extremely interesting to think about how radio signals propagate, there's like an invisible world that we are surrounded by at all times. and I agree with you, there's going to be a use for the American minute man once again. Disrupting radio transmission would be an extremely effective way to stop the occupying forces from communicating or using tools against you that require RF signals. Another good rule of thumb when thinking about signals, 30 feet of elevation, that's usually how high you need to get above the ground in order to receive from cell towers on the horizon, any kind of dip in the terrain is a dead zone.
@@OleDiaBole That's what I would have thought, too. pine trees are worse than concrete walls. zero penetration, even using lower frequencies that tend to have better penetration capabilities.
Definitely not true. GPS is relatively easy to secure against jamming (directional antennas -- listen up not down -- and ofc there's aslo the simple brute force approach -- add more satellites/increase power output). Technically it's even easier to secure against spoofing. So far there's no identification mechanisms whatsoever in GPS tech -- there's been no need for this. Hence, the current problems with spoofing. People are lazy, they usually don't do things if they can get away with it.
@@vmasing1965 that or the gps that most use isnt the millitary grade one It would make sense to make civilian gps very easy to jam so other nations would have a harder time finding out how jam ressistant it is I wont be suprised if theyve given ukraine accses to some downgraded military version so the russians cant find out exacly how good it is
@anirecapped. I can't imagine a lower cost solution. It's all commodity hardware, and commodity algorithms, using existing infrastructure. It's another control module which can be plugged into anything which can be steered. This is the way things will have to go: more modular architectures resilient to change. Of course, that in turn speeds up the cat and mouse development but also makes it the principle vector for victory : whose society is the most innovative and whose is set up to deliver change. That's exactly the metric we need society to be measured by ahead of the times of chaotic change we are about to enter thanks to climate change.
Infrared imaging with target recognition at final aproach makes the GPS jamming ineffective. Most Israeli air to ground weapon (eg. SPICE bombs) uses it, but GBU-53/B StormBreaker also has this feature. Terrain-contour-matching (TERCOM) is also a reliable method for weapon navigation, which existed well before the GPS-era. Tomahawk and other CM still use it.
Correct - I worked on the engineering team for the Stormbreaker Seeker way back in 2010. The Seeker is actually tri-mode, with MMW radar, uncooled imaging IR (UCIR), and Semi-Active Laser (SAL) designation options. This makes it an all-weather munition. The Wikipedia entry is fairly accurate without a lot of detail. Suffice it to say that the INS part of the GPS/INS can very reliably guide the glide bomb to within a square mile or so of the target zone where the Seeker takes over. No GNSS required. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-53/B_StormBreaker
@@seekrengr751 Why do you need MM radar an IIR at the same time? It makes the munition expansive, while only one of the would be enough to find the target. I prefer SPICE-250 - much cheaper and to the job just as well!
@@84rb While IIR has higher resolution than MMW radar, MMW penetrates rain, fog, and clouds much better than IR so makes terminal guidance all-weather. MMW is also active, which has advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage of course is that it can be detected (and maybe jammed by a broadband jammer) by a potential target, which is why the frequency is classified. The advantage is that it does not require thermal contrast to recognize and track a target (the autonomous target algorithms handle moving targets well). Targets that are not operating (generating heat) can often have very low thermal signatures (as when wet) or may be camouflaged with shrubbery. MMW radar sees through most camo well, better than IIR, and can acquire and track a wet target. The SAL sensor provides a CEP much smaller than that of SPICE-250, and so does the sensor-fused IIR/MMW when both are employed. That makes Stormbreaker a more precision weapon besides the all-weather capability.
I am an airline pilot and we are effected by jamming and spoofing regularly on our long flights. I am thinking of 2 simple ways how they can be prevented. The gnss signals come from above and jamming/spoofing signals come from below. There can be some physical shielding of the antenna to prevent signals coming from below. Or, the software can be modified so as to ignore signals coming from below and only use signals coming from above.
I was wondering about the same thing, the possibility of physically Blocking the signal coming from below the aircraft to defeat jamming. I think the Russians could potentially step up the game by using aircraft with jammers, perhaps a modified Mig 31 or launch a satellite cluster at Low Earth Orbit with Powerful Jammers. They should be closer to Earth than the Geostationary GPS satellites, and the inverse square law should work in their Favour, although I guess other countries might consider these satellite launches to be acts of hostilities.
Oh cool, well hey, I'm glad we figured this out during 'live combat testing', so now we can make all of the necessary changes to our weapons and strategies. Perfect. Thanks for the feedback!
In addition to terminal homing seekers available for JDAM and SDB-I guided bombs there are of course HOJ (Home On Jamming) seekers which onto and target the GPS jammers destroying them.
Sure, but it will ride on the back of existing systems, HARMs for example, and they need to be delivered from the air which makes them vulnerable, not accounting that in this particular instance you often get outranged. I'm not saying there would not be some success but for how long and, would it be enough?
It's happening right now. Unfortunately it's with very expensive sensor combinations but my Scandi former colleagues have a dedicated home on jam hardware kit ready to go. The software is what's taking time. It's simple to determine bearing of the jamming emissions, but the range is a challenge due to varying amplitude. You don't want to shoot a "dumb" home on jam over the heads of friends. In the case of the glsdb, it may end up being as simple as a timer. There are no friends past position x, so after x, then on home on jam.
@@attaque71 jammers are more expensive than home-on-jam missiles. The only reason why russian tactic is working is because it caught the west by surprise. Given time to adjust to these tactics the west will develop such systems, that is if they truly are that useful. The jamming-EW field is a russian specialty, no other western adversary seems to prioritize it so it might be too limited of a use case for the US to invest seriously in this sense. Overall it's not a great idea to rely on jamming, you're spending awful loads of money to make the enemy precision slightly worse, instead of spending those money to improve accuracy and range of your own systems.
excellent summary of the problems, I used to sell INS systems (based on Honeywell Ring Laser Gyros) and have one of those old inertial platforms in my collection (3 north seeking gyros USAF) thanks I do radio as well so appreciate the effort you put into this clip
I don't understand why you so quickly dismissed anti-radiation missiles suppressing the jammers. Such missiles are already well developed, and would be the first option I would exercise.
HARM doesn't have to be expensive, it's super cheap simple technology that could be deployed widely, other than two facts. (1) US defense contractors are ridiculously expense and have lock-in by political corruption, and, (2) the U.S. still does NOT anticipate actual superpower conflict where this would be relevant. Hence the US has no mass-production of HARM or similar systems to find active-radars or GPS jammers and just hit them.
You only need presision in the last seconds of flight. So inertia can have presedence. On approach another system can take over, like visual. It would seem you should start the whole battle by taking out radar and spoofing with relatively stupid warheads searching for signal sources.
Russian EW is effective because Ukraine effectively cannot contest the airspace. In a contested airspace, any jamming or spoofing emitter is liable to get HARMed.
It's the worth the other way - Ukraine depends on NATO assets like AWACS, satelites and drones that can't be shot down without escalation to direct conflict.
I think that the second their jammers get hit they will switch to the old model of running coax cabels to antennas. The antenna will be cheaper te replace than a harm missile.
@@thorluis226 As I understand it for JDAM, INS is the primary guidance, gps is used to provide corrections to that. Gbu-48 is an upgrade of paveway 2 (PAVE = LASEr designation) with GPS guidance available for when weather doesn't permit laser designation to be effective. GBU-38 is JDAM so INS + GPS and completely unrelated to gbu-48.
This video explains perfectly how I understand the issue. It even mentions the Kessler, bonus points for that! Can't wait to explore your other vids where I don't know the subject matter and learn something!! As for location accuracy, my thought is that Terminal guidance by friendly emitters with known locations could be helpful. Small devices with solar panels air dropped into trees, refining their location over time, listening for friendly queries and squaking only then.
One solution I have considered lately is AI driven navigation. One with the ability to keep track of changes of direction and terrain recognition. The fire control technician would provide the drone with a three dimensional map to the target with accurate terrain and structure information of the possible routes. It could use the stars to help navigation but would not be necessary. Once released no amount of signal jamming or spoofing can deter it from accurate weapon delivery.
I learned map reading when I was around 7 years old back in the 1950's topographic maps mostly compass helps but understanding landforms is enough for most of my solo hikes in mountain terrain.
я не услышал главного - почему российские умпк фаб остаются эффективными ? Ответ кажется очевидным - неэффективность или слабая эффективность западных образцов РЭБ и лучшая помехозащищённость ГЛОНАСС приёмников используемых в российских системах вооружения, хотелось бы узнать мнение автора канала....
Anti radiation missiles are another solution that should have been explored more, something that Ukraine lacks. GPS Jammer constantly emits signals and that is vulnerable to anti radiation missiles.
@@guilherme1622 You probably have in mind air launch harm missiles intended against sam radars, jamming antenna can be stronger and further so you would have to go through before mentioned sams to even reach it. Also its just simpler system, its not trying to lock you but only fill the airways with garbage so i would assume its easier to fortify versus harms.
Its ridiculous considering how easy its now to map out you family tree online just based on open source records. Huge amount of work has already been done by others, so you rarely have to do much work yourself.
Indeed if completely honest the only way to have them cheap enough for a mass consumer market at this point is to have a super low resolution of data analysis, which gives you something so vague that it's noticably less reliable than than just asking your parents or grandparents
@@alexdunphy3716 yeah, I know. and he doesn't have any idea about it. I would love to hear exactly what's rubbish and how would the dogs DNA prove anything
An interesting topic. As a non-expert, It seems weird to me that that the solutions presented tend towards high complexity in order to solve the problem type of approach. The problem as I understand it, from a weapon system accuracy point of view, is that the electronic signals from the GNSS and used by the guidance system becomes less reliable near an electronically protected area and inertially bases systems loose accuracy over time and distance for a variety of reasons. Why wouldn't we be able to use the two systems independence to our benefit? The GPS guidance can be used to update/correct the inertial guidance system up to the point that the GPS data reliability looses fidelity. Close to the target, the inertial system in combination with a course projection calculation could help filter out or eliminate GPS position updates/results that could not be within reasonable probability from the projected course. Alternatively on complete loss or loss of confidence in the GPS guidance, the inertial guidance could take over and be reasonably accurate since it only needs to maintain a given course for the last few seconds over a relatively short distance. This certainly wouldn't 'fix' the problem, but it could be done with some coding and existing equipment in the guidance system. If it reduces the CEP to the blast radius of the weapon it would at least be an improvement to missing by 10s or 100s of meters. Perhaps this has already been considered but it's just a thought. Cheers
I DON'T KNOW if something change this last 2 months but Ukraine is using ATACMS very successful and more than that every day they are using jdams on Kharkiv region with great effect...
@@bastordd lol because a few of atacms out of a hundred fired hit a few targets and out of 500 jdams supplied to Ukraine a few hit a target. Well i guess you a right, the Russians might as well pack up and go home 🤡 try keep up bud, embarrassing yourself in a public forum isn't good for your nental health.
@@OzzyBloke that's excalibur round... We are talking about Jdam bombs... I'm not gonna waste my time with you... When people have videos to prove it... BTW 3 days to Kiev 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There are so many ways to counter GPS jamming and spoofing. But they're only available with American assets. Ukraine do not have these options, which is basically this war in a nutshell. There are various tactical and strategic problems that is specific to the Russia vs Ukraine conflict that will not be present in a Russia vs NATO war.
Yep! There are 3 new variants of Excalibur that are only in US or NATO hands. Two use a second means of navigation. Excal HTK is like Stormbreaker (SDB II) and can search for a target. Excal S is laser guided on terminal descent. The 3d (Excal 1B) can use shaped trajectories to get a favorable terminal attack angle.
Sometimes, being smart makes you weak. That's the problem with guided bombs. They can be deceived because they can think instead of being just a stupid bomb.
Stupid people are stubborn, smart people second guess everything. A stupid person only gets things done if they are pointed in the right direction. A smart person can get things done even if they are pointed in the wrong direction.
S500 might be deployed to Crimea in near future but it is not designed for HIMARS/GMLRS - it's more like of the THAAD equivalent. Also, S300s and even S400s (withdrawn due to quality problems) were shooting GMLRS and other missiles quite well; if they failed, like on spectacular video - it was mostly due to staff mistake.
HMARS are beeing shoot down in massive scale.here and there one goes through on the other hand american ad shoot 1 in 10 down and gets blown up easily.the funny part is the US think they can with their airpower overpower Russian AD but like to forgett tha Russia has more AD than the US has aircrafts😂
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Well you speak English like a Greek, so... Hi from Athens, Greece 😁
Then let them get hacked like 23 and me and lose all private info including genetic background to criminals, ironically to support a hack.
Hey Gus! Another great (and important) video.
Have you considered doing something on Link.16 ..?
I always hear about it but know nothing about it.
figured your first topic would have been low earth orbit [ trivia over 40 ,000 satellites ] ... as long as you know part of plan 4 winds [ at war and you pizz me off ] ..., will make low earth orbit dead ..battle plans all posted ... so long musk link .. soo long all usa military low earth toy's [ cute little shuttle ]
..btw ... it does get much worse >>>>>
great picture 4 days ago ..satellite exploding low earth ..from Russia with love
My AirPods get jammed by the microwave.
Ultrasonic cleaner's screw up noise cancelling headphones as well
I have to test if my headphones freak out from my camera lenses with Ultra sonic motors
Some hearing aids pickup all kinds of crazy things, cars that are turned off but have active electronics & sensors. Ultrasonic insect repellent devices. It’s interesting for sure.
Haha, my BOSE QC get jammed by the induction stove.
My ears get screwed up by ultrasonic pest repellents.
Arrogance and hubris. Soviet Radioelectronic combat was a serious threat in the 80s and the RFA didn't abolish EW for 15 years like the US Army did. The US Military decided that precision weapons were the solution in 1970s and assumed that nobody could practically jam them after 1990 so basically the US stopped developing other guidance systems for a few decades. And hasn't managed to build/field the user hardware for anti-jam after eventually, after long delays, deploying M-code on the sats.
But hey, it worked fine against 3rd world insurgents and terrorists, and we would never be fighting a competent military backed by a large industrialized country, so why spend the money?
You do know that the US military is perfectly capable to take out EW transmitters, right?
@@hackbrettschorsch6855of course it is but if the transmitters are located in Russia 🇷🇺 that’s escalation towards a direct conflict 😮
@@dtrain1634 its a good thing himars are completely unaffected lol
@@ClayishWallhave you watched the same video as all the others?
@@dtrain1634 in this war? Sure. But don't draw comparisons from Ukraine to a potential war with US involvement. Even in a contested airspace, HARMs are a threat to any EM emitter. Here's a hint: the USAF generally doesn't contest airspaces. Others try (with varying success).
If the US fights a war, any EM emitter is comparable to Ralph Wigum.
And this also shows why teaching people to read old fashioned maps is really important.
It's way more convenient to use a map on your smartphone even without any navigation. You get multiple layers with instant switch, search, endless coverage, multiple zoom levels, quick measuring tools, marking tools, etc.
An equivalent with paper maps is having a navigator guy with you with a backpack full of maps and a map tablet with physical tools. And even then you get old data and it's very hard to collate multiple sources on the fly
As a former Boyscout, i can only agree to this.
Go and say that to long range bomber crews@@NJ-wb1cz
@@NJ-wb1cz its all nice and good, until you running out of energy or same shrapnel make holes in digital systems. Techs are good, but papers survives much more
@@keizru Sure, there can be other valid reasons to use maps, like if you're hiking alone for days, but GPS being jammed is not one of them
You see, when the missile gets close, the Russians press X at the right time to affect a dodge roll and the most cunning Russians can leave it until the last second, then do a parry with their tactical shovel.
LMAOOOOOOO
I did not expect the Souls reference. This is gold!
lol it's like the Russian version of the Iron Dome. I wonder if that's how Israel really deflects missiles.
Using Shovels should be classed as a War Crime.
oh those shovels.. and they're probably all crusted with dirt too (gritty cave people those Russians, what d ya want). I can just picture it...
I'm in Europe, 600 km from Kaliningrad, 2000 km from the border of Ukraine. Since the war started Uber app that was pretty precise with figuring out my location (as in: where to pick me up) now misses by hundreds of meters.
Just a small fact of life, you can make your own conclusions.
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the army regularly screws over my internet connection
Drive your own car and won't happen
@@albripibut whenever you need to use Google maps it still cant be precise. As for me, I'm so used to maps and navigation, i almost don't know how to get to different places in my city
Your country is testing GPS jamming equipment/deploying.
A most comprehensive video on a complex topic. Excellent work as always.
excellent, indeed.
I took a DNA test and I'm in the family Hylobatidae. That's right! My parents are Gibbon apes and I'm certain that's where I got my intelligence.
you mean Gibson apes?
I see what you did there.
Possible relatives are rapists.
I can trace my DNA back to cave Trolls. That's before MyHeritage trolled all of us.
Okidoki
Krasnopol-M uses laser guidance, the Russians intend to use a combination of laser and Glonass with the new Krasnapol-D variant.
The L-JDAM does as well, in addition to INS and other things which cannot be mentioned.
@@ArchOfficial camera that actually recognises where the target is?
@@TimMuller-c3q No, they can't be mentioned.
@@TimMuller-c3q All of the hints are in the open source space, hence why I know about them. You can find them.
It's nothing too sexy although it matters more for real-world performance vs on-paper performance, as usual for NATO vs OPFOR stuff.
@@TimMuller-c3q cannot be mentioned?? Oh that's right, those sacred secrets of the US that of course makes it better than anyone else, we just can't know it, but we just have to believe in it
By the way, dBm is decibel in relation to milliwatt.
Rats…I knew it sounded wrong when I said but I was in a rush for the sponsor and I didn’t check. Sorry.
Fun fact, you actually need 4 satellite signals... time is also a variable. for more accurate and cancelling signal propagation interferences, 6-7 is required for google map level navigation. if you are fast moving missile, more satellites signals are required to remove doppler effects
with 1 sat your accuracy is an infinite sphere, with 2 sats your accuracy is an infinite disc, with 3 sats your accuracy is an infinite line, with 4 sats your accuracy is a point. I'm guessing you ideally want a few more than that in case some of the signals are not getting through at any given time due with clouds, obstacles, etc..
@@voltaire229 not realy. With 4 sats your accuracy is a not infinite sphere. Additional satellites make the radius of the sphere smaller
@@voltaire229that's wrong. Theoretically, only 3 is needed to get a point. But you need more because they're not 100% accurate.
@@shadmansudipto7287 Only if you have a synchronized super-accurate clock, if not you need to also compute the clock as variable. This means you have a 4 unknowns so you need at least 4 equations to solve it, generally speaking.
@@MilianoAlvez I see
Once again you have hit the mark...!!! You answered, in a simple but accurate way, my questions about military jamming-spoofing activity. I am a former officer (a.u.c.) of the Italian Air Force, and your channel is simply fantastic. Well done, congratulations, you manage to communicate difficult concepts in a completely clear and simple way...!!! Greeting from Rome
Probably the best discussion I have seen on GPS spoofing.
No Russian DNA? Man, that will confuse people! ;)
Thanks and hugs for Otis from Germany! ;)
Sorry - but he is not Aryan ...
@@johnmoser1162 But Otis is? Isn't he? ;)
@@johnmoser1162 cringe nazi
@@leonleeoff2216 Vasily Stepanov
A lot of people, including my neighbour in Northern England, pick up 1-5% Russian DNA. Just waiting to see how my Mum's come out
based on my experience developing GPS based app: 9 satellites are needed to get constantly accurate position.
Triangulation based off timings is how it works, so you need minimum 3..9 is going to be exponentially more accurate than 3
@@AutomHeshA7 You need 4 ... to get altitude precise.
@@AutomHeshA7 logically 3 is enough, factually 9 is needed to get constantly accurate positioning. you can try it yourself: track cars for 24/7, compare the acuracy based on the number of satellites received.
Drones can also create a navigation network.
@@ViceCoin, from what I hear, that's the direction everyone is headed. Starlink is just the beginning. Drone-type craft will proliferate extremely-low earth orbit and provide distributed communications support.
As a former soldier, every now and then I find my graduation picture from basic training. There I am with my fellow soldiers. Our faces look more like boys and barely young men. It is a sobering thought that it is these young men we may have to send them to war. Enjoy your tech analysis and briefing. They remind me how our battlefield have become more deadly than it was for me 40 years ago.
The reason why INS based weapon systems include GPS is because relative to the INS, GPS receiver is quite small and cheap. It augments the INS system by providing up to date position information, allowing the INS to correct/reset the accumulated drift.
For the weapon itself, outside of shielding/directional antennas, one of the best solutions to jamming is actually speed. Since INS drift is a function of time, the faster you go, the less time you spend within range of the jamming systems. When you get up to cruise missile speeds, 20-30 mile effective range of jammers, is small enough to where rather cheap and small(yet ITAR controlled) sensors can achieve a couple meter accuracy. The other solution to jamming is image recognition for terminal guidance. Using IR sensors and AI image recognition will allow target detection/tracking easily at hundreds of meters. That VASTLY decreases the required INS accuracy, while also allowing for the tracking of moving targets. INS accuracy could open up into the hundreds of meters!
For the battlespace, the solution to jamming is relatively small long endurance UAV's with directional antennas, and some radio hardware. They'd work in sets of 3 or more to triangulate the jammers. Passing the targeting data to many various ground/air weapon systems. Think of it as a counter artillery for jamming. I wouldn't be surprised if In future war, the poor soldiers who get assigned to the units who deploy jamming equipment, will having some of the shortest life expectancies on the battlefield.
I'd bet a good bit of money that whatever agency is operating the USA's ginormous SIGINT satellites, knows every single time, when a jammer is powered up.
Radio recon satellites are a thing, you just need enough of them. Then you launch a gmlr or something at the jammer
You are delusional
I was surprised he didn't mention visual guidance. The Lancet has the hardware necessary to segment roads and rivers out of images and then use a particle filter and reference maps to infer its position. Sure, the accuracy isnt 3 meters but you can use computer vision to id targets once you get there.
Regarding targetting the jammers, the solution could be to have teams of several jammers assigned to one area. If they constantly move and switch with each jammer on for less time than it takes for a harm missile to reach them you would have to carpet bomb the area to deal with it.
@@hanskrause8315 sure, they could be mobile. But then they’re much more expensive, and need to be manned. if you want to switch them, you’ll need 3-4 times as many as you’d otherwise need for a given area. So, your counter to the counter, is multiplying jamming costs by probably 10x. That’s not the right move.
AI target recognition using IR sensors will easily target a moving vehicle.
The time it takes a missile to travel the 20 mile effective range of jammers, is not much time. 90 seconds is not enough to use your jammer, pack it up, scoot to the next location, set everything back up, and then turn jammer back on. All of that is at least 10 minutes.
@@Jordan-dt6qx We must be missing something. Otherwise it just seems too easy to destroy jammers.
If you had 6 jammers (needing 30 seconds to raise their masts) jamming 30 seconds each moving at 30km/h between jamming sessions, each jammer would be 1km away from its last jamming session when it turned on. Fuel and logistics costs are for sure greater but if I were an ew soldier that's certainly what I'd want.
Your videos just keep getting better!
Antennas have broad beams an modest gain. But even simple antennas have very sharp and deep nulls. The most effective countermeasure is to point a pattern null at the jammer.
GLSDB is new, but the SDB part is old.
All that will happen is that the older GLSDB and SDB seekers will be upgraded with more jam resistant GPS receivers, improved INS and Digital Image Scene Correlation like the French HAMER bomb. It's not the end of the weapon and it will be back soon.
I like how people say that Russia have never achieved air superiority and yet the FABs were dropping by the hundreds every day.
Meanwhile JDAM and other western smart munitions rarely got used. And even got jammed when they do.
They drop them from inside russia because they are cowards, they haven't any superiority in anything 😅
FABs don't need to be accurate as they are area bombing basically. Saturating an area with bombs. The gliding ability is important to Russia as it gives them safe distancing to drop. The FAB "accuracy" isn't really important as Russia doesn't mind flattening everything in Ukraine and the payload is so big that 100m, 200m even 300m is "accurate" enough to destroy a building/strongpoint. Ukraine needs accuracy more so than Russia to target specific units. They don't won't to destroy their own country in the process.
Storm Shadow/SCALP old weapons on the shelf for years have GPS Inertial and terminal vision of target. You are not jamming that and you get 500 KG of Military grade explosive. Air Burst or penetrate as deep as you want. They fly low and follow terrain. Use the proven British/French old gear. Tech.
@@leod-sigefast come on 300m? 30-50m can be devastating for people located inside the concrete building but above that they will be safe. And ruskies are dropping them within the 0-30m range. They are extremely effective.
Flying up to the edge is not air superiority. Iraq was air superiority.
I don't understand the problem with inertial guidance. You said it's good for short ranges, and that's all its needed for, since the range of GPS jamming is relatively short, as you pointed out. So why not just use GPS for initial guidance and an inertial system (which can be updated from the GPS during the pre-terminal flight phase) for the terminal guidance?
EW isn't something Russians have abolished. Hell, understanding the physics behind information transfer is what Russians are adept to dealing with even in nuclear war, so i am really surprised USA didn't include anything to deal with the electronic warfare in their top of the line guided bombs. Unless they were really only meant to deal with countries who don't have EW capabilities.
The Raytheons and LMs only do the minimal work required to fulfill the contracts. If they know a GPS receiver with no serious anti-jamming protection will pass then that's what they are going to sell.
@@Statueshop297 Ukraine is getting the old stuff. Surplus from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Russian-Ukraine war is not a good showcase of American made weapons, as such they’re not good showcases of western weapons over all which are to an extent designed with the American army in mind. IE the EU nation would be fighting a 3rd world country without the US and they won’t need the anti jamming capability. Or they’re fighting the Russians, which will mean the Americans are involved. As such American air power is heavily factored in, as well as their SEAD capabilities. These jammers would not survive long in the way they’re currently employed in that threat environment and we would more likely see sporadic jamming of focused areas of the front to cover big pushes. Don’t forget the 2 most potent air forces in the world both belong to the USA lol.
tbf US hasnt fought advanced wars since korean war.
Ukraine has not received anything that would be considered top of the line. The tech is around 2004-2005. JDAMs and so on are mostly stock that needs to be spent.
During your presentation, I had visions of myriads of ‘air tags’ being dispensed in flight. Find my keys, find my dog, find my stolen trailer. GNNS Chaff.
"Tactics without Strategy is Noise before Defeat" Sun Tzu.
Dear Millenium7,
I'm not writing to disagree with you regarding internal guidance. I just want to point out that even JDAM incorporates inertial guidance.
This is actually what my business is working on.
The problem with inertial guidance is not inherent drift. This is easy to compensate with calculation.
The problems are cost, size, and complexity, in that order. Laser-mirror based gyros can be made very small and so can the computers and batteries but at a rapidly escalating cost. Multifaceted systems are coming, with basically inertial guidance on a chip, just not today.
Military tech tended to be conservative, not cutting edge. Sometimes you'd find so many old relays and components.
Maybe that will change
How do you compensate drift with calculation?
Great video mate. A clear title with no clickbait, rather complex information well delivired. One time youtube algorythms served me well.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
This is the best prospective answer to the jamming problem. Otis could try to integrate the quotient of the vector matrix of the positions that we're over that of the positions we are not. Then ffsletmein4321 and signiore A could claim the Fields Medal and Otis himself the Peace Nobel Prize. Hilariously exceptional comment this one above.
I think that is a Vaudvillel Skit not an engineer analysis.
This is like a revised version of Who's On First, but for warfare pointy heads.
This guy isn't
I really hate this 😳
😂You need to give Otis a Mrs.Otis!😂
The Airforce spent money on home-on-GPS-jammer seekers in 2014. This certainly seems like a pretty straight forward application. In the last couple of months the US Air Force is spending a modest amount of money to actually get these built. I am surprised this weapon isn’t already in the US inventory.
It was never needed because of the US previous warfare
They probably are - they probably sent the "old" stuff to Ukraine and kept the new stuff for themselves.
I mean, they're sending F-16s, not F-35s, right?
The United States wasted its money and that of much of the western world in Afghanistan for No real result. This a whole range of weapon systems didn’t get the upgrades they needed. For instance the stinger missile is being jammed by DIRCM. this was all predicted in their ass Solutions but as I said the money went into Afghanistan and fixing the soldiers injuries as much as they could be fixed
@@edwardcullen1739they never had any dummy,fella told you they only start developing modern ones according all data collected from UA
Maybe they could use these Anduril devices? ruclips.net/video/tnsyM3NPy1c/видео.html
AstroInertial Navigation units are still in use on the B-2 bomber, they’ll probably be on the B-21. I wouldn’t rule out other military aircraft as the SR-71 used it as did the B-51.
Some universal military diktats. 1) A space based transmitter signal can always be overpowered by a ground based transmitter. 2) Multiple ground based transmitters can be built for the cost of a single anti-radiation missile. 3) HARMs currently are out ranged in theatre by Russian AD and AA missiles. 4) The US has less HARMs available than the number of Russian jamming/spoofing systems deployed at this time (not all are vehicular).
@@Statueshop297I think you missed his point about jammers are much less expensive than HARM missiles. You’re going to run out of HARMs before you run out of emitters.
@@Statueshop297 you do know HARM targets the antennas of such emitters, don’t you? The main equipment and crew could very well be set up at a distance to the antennas, making that very expensive missile hitting a very replaceable part. Not to mention these jammers and spoofers could very well be autonomous unmanned equipment. I What HARM is useful for is suppress radar ahead of an attack that would take out much more valuable assets, Not to deal with numerous expendable machines. Also that thousands of HARM inventory took years to build up, and would be expended in a few months at most if used as liberally as you suggested.
@@Statueshop297 well, these things do make taking out the air defense more difficult. Plus, they make taking out other ground target even after the air defense has been taken out more difficult. Taking these out is not as simple as you make it, as most cheaper air to ground smart weapons ARE GPS dependent. Those that aren’t are almost always more expensive, sometimes exorbitantly so.
If I'm not mistaked the Saab F-39 uses it's radar to read the terrain to suplement the GPS system. Some brazillian missiles will have both too!
In Greece we say "una faccia, una razza " about the Italians
i mean most "modern" southern italian are descendent of mostly classical greeks settelers and some italics people.. (bruti, samnites, latins etc etc)
only in recent centuries there was an influx of albanian (who the albians actually are is another issue) and a small minority of Normans there was some sprinkle of iberians and arabs but even if the spaniard owned the land for a while they didn't promote colonization plans of any kind..
most northern italian will have more celtic and german traits given the amount of germanic people that settled there in the late antiquity..
Also is important to notice that by the roman reconquista of Italy (VI-VII century) the population of the entire peninsula dropped below 1ml.
That factor alone made the successive migrations of germanic people more influential on the population mix.
@@andrews.5212
Italiens: "We wuz Greeks!"
Thank you to this broad and interesting explanation of gnss systems and their counteracting!
I'm a kind of guy who is more on the "cautious" side of personality. I really really love fool-proof and rugged things. Those magnetic rock formations on the earth, all sorts of gyroscopic navigation and celestial navigation really really impressed me. You can't jam a wire-guided AT missile, you can't jam the location of sun either. It seems to be that due to historical and geopolitical reasons, the Russian military tends to think a design thing in my way rather than the "cool" way. For goodness sake, the jam everything so hard that they jam themselves too, just to make sure that their enemy doesn't have the advantage either 😂
They did not forget how to determine one's location and the target's location, how to determine the direction of artillery guns in traverse and elevation, how to plan, organize and execute the operation of the elements of the fire support system with satisfactory low error level and time consumption, using analogue methods.
There are solutions for this problem. Many aircraft like a B-52 B2 will carry a star tracker accurate to 180m or so. Digital image scene correlation works so does ground mappingradar.
Russian krasnopol shell uses diferent aproach. No gps signal, itis guided by laser marking from a drone. So while they saturate area with jamming, they continue to operate with impunity
@@OleDiaBole Isn't Bairaktar doing same?
@@ldkbudda4176 They have all ben scraped by september 22. No new gifts arived. West and consequently Ukraine do not have shell that is equivalent of Krasnopol.
As a 1980s Misslie Tech on Ohio class SSBNs loaded with the temporary UGM96-Trident 1 C4 designed as an upgraded backfit missile for the previous Posiden in 640 class SSBNs, we used an Inertial navigation unit, a computer that recieved our position on the earth provided by a SINS or ships inercial navigation set using the previous 3 axis gyro paired with a state of the art ESGM Electro static gyro measurement system. The missile guildence system had a camera that provided mid coarse corection with a star sighting reference before ejecting REBs based on the targeting program. Our RVs were accurate to 300 meters from 4500 miles distance. Thats not the modern definition of Precision guilded munitions but with a 100KT warhead, thats pretty accurate for the 1980s. There was no functional GPS at the time.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Excellent disertation. Thank you. A fan.
Very informative video, better than all the so called "experts".
Amazing, unbiased video. Why did I find your channel just now?!
Oreck or Dyson? Otis wants to know its ancestry. 😅😅😅
Chinese for sure
With a name like Otis, I figured he came out of an elevator 😁
@@anthonykaiser974 🤣
He is Taiwanese, MOST CERTAINLY.
It's nice to find honest and well-researched information for a change. I can't be bothered with mainstream media for anything but what not to believe. Great video as usual.
21:35 Ah my favorite subject... lateral lobes...
Ferengi? 🙂
Ballsy.
Thank you Gus. Exemplary explication and explanation, as always. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
You are forgot about most used anti-jamming technology widely used for now by Russians and Iranians. Controlled reception pattern antennas (CRPA) are active antennas that are designed to resist radio jamming and spoofing.
Very, very interesting.
I was an electronics tech in the RAN. I always found navigation equipment fascinating.
Also, nothing can beat the complete FU of a Lieutenant with a map.
I am a radio frequency and network engineer, at least I was in my past. I worked in the field, and I have encountered many things that stop radio signals and interact with them in unexpected ways. Pine trees, for example, they may as well be made of copper. For some reason nothing can penetrate pine trees. If you don't want to get hit by a GPS guided bomb, hide in a coniferous forest lololol
This is insanely interesting, and useful info for militia troops in USA, thanks for info!
after doing some research it has something to do with chaff, the leaves cause the waves to either bounce off or they absorb it alltogether
@@Mountain_bonker yeah, it's extremely interesting to think about how radio signals propagate, there's like an invisible world that we are surrounded by at all times. and I agree with you, there's going to be a use for the American minute man once again. Disrupting radio transmission would be an extremely effective way to stop the occupying forces from communicating or using tools against you that require RF signals. Another good rule of thumb when thinking about signals, 30 feet of elevation, that's usually how high you need to get above the ground in order to receive from cell towers on the horizon, any kind of dip in the terrain is a dead zone.
Pines? Dumbest thing i have ever read.
@@OleDiaBole That's what I would have thought, too. pine trees are worse than concrete walls. zero penetration, even using lower frequencies that tend to have better penetration capabilities.
Excellent explanations and clarity.
20:27 The quote is "Houston, we have had a problem".
Also, GPS is toast.
mw2 reference? cool
Definitely not true. GPS is relatively easy to secure against jamming (directional antennas -- listen up not down -- and ofc there's aslo the simple brute force approach -- add more satellites/increase power output).
Technically it's even easier to secure against spoofing. So far there's no identification mechanisms whatsoever in GPS tech -- there's been no need for this. Hence, the current problems with spoofing. People are lazy, they usually don't do things if they can get away with it.
@@vmasing1965 that or the gps that most use isnt the millitary grade one
It would make sense to make civilian gps very easy to jam so other nations would have a harder time finding out how jam ressistant it is
I wont be suprised if theyve given ukraine accses to some downgraded military version so the russians cant find out exacly how good it is
wow spoofing, thankyou so much for giving so much learning about it, i never miss your videos, chao
Odd that you don't mention vision recognition (topologically) derived from satellite imagery as a robust, cheap and obvious approach.
Or terminal guidance using Thermal/Visual sensors.
Because that and INS (also present in jdams) mind of invalidate this entire video
@anirecapped. I can't imagine a lower cost solution. It's all commodity hardware, and commodity algorithms, using existing infrastructure. It's another control module which can be plugged into anything which can be steered. This is the way things will have to go: more modular architectures resilient to change. Of course, that in turn speeds up the cat and mouse development but also makes it the principle vector for victory : whose society is the most innovative and whose is set up to deliver change. That's exactly the metric we need society to be measured by ahead of the times of chaotic change we are about to enter thanks to climate change.
@anirecapped. Not in this day and age. Not 90s anymore.
mentioned at 27:00
It rocks that you shared your heritage.
Infrared imaging with target recognition at final aproach makes the GPS jamming ineffective. Most Israeli air to ground weapon (eg. SPICE bombs) uses it, but GBU-53/B StormBreaker also has this feature. Terrain-contour-matching (TERCOM) is also a reliable method for weapon navigation, which existed well before the GPS-era. Tomahawk and other CM still use it.
Correct - I worked on the engineering team for the Stormbreaker Seeker way back in 2010. The Seeker is actually tri-mode, with MMW radar, uncooled imaging IR (UCIR), and Semi-Active Laser (SAL) designation options. This makes it an all-weather munition.
The Wikipedia entry is fairly accurate without a lot of detail. Suffice it to say that the INS part of the GPS/INS can very reliably guide the glide bomb to within a square mile or so of the target zone where the Seeker takes over. No GNSS required.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-53/B_StormBreaker
@@seekrengr751 Why do you need MM radar an IIR at the same time? It makes the munition expansive, while only one of the would be enough to find the target. I prefer SPICE-250 - much cheaper and to the job just as well!
@@84rb While IIR has higher resolution than MMW radar, MMW penetrates rain, fog, and clouds much better than IR so makes terminal guidance all-weather. MMW is also active, which has advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage of course is that it can be detected (and maybe jammed by a broadband jammer) by a potential target, which is why the frequency is classified. The advantage is that it does not require thermal contrast to recognize and track a target (the autonomous target algorithms handle moving targets well).
Targets that are not operating (generating heat) can often have very low thermal signatures (as when wet) or may be camouflaged with shrubbery. MMW radar sees through most camo well, better than IIR, and can acquire and track a wet target. The SAL sensor provides a CEP much smaller than that of SPICE-250, and so does the sensor-fused IIR/MMW when both are employed. That makes Stormbreaker a more precision weapon besides the all-weather capability.
Thank you for sharing the so much information in a 30 min video. Very useful for research as I am already into most of them.
I am an airline pilot and we are effected by jamming and spoofing regularly on our long flights.
I am thinking of 2 simple ways how they can be prevented. The gnss signals come from above and jamming/spoofing signals come from below.
There can be some physical shielding of the antenna to prevent signals coming from below. Or, the software can be modified so as to ignore signals coming from below and only use signals coming from above.
I was wondering about the same thing, the possibility of physically Blocking the signal coming from below the aircraft to defeat jamming. I think the Russians could potentially step up the game by using aircraft with jammers, perhaps a modified Mig 31 or launch a satellite cluster at Low Earth Orbit with Powerful Jammers. They should be closer to Earth than the Geostationary GPS satellites, and the inverse square law should work in their Favour, although I guess other countries might consider these satellite launches to be acts of hostilities.
Oh cool, well hey, I'm glad we figured this out during 'live combat testing', so now we can make all of the necessary changes to our weapons and strategies. Perfect. Thanks for the feedback!
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😊 Thank you! I'm not having the best day and this really lifted my spirits!
Fond memories... 😂
@@edwardcullen1739I think I've red somewhere that Spaceballs 2 is in the works by Amazon, Mel Brooks is producer/director.
Splendid, thank you !!
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Thank you. Great video. Looks to me that the answer is special forces, unless they get lost looking for the jamming/spoofing stations.
Attacking guys wearing flipflops riding camels and Russian army are two very different things !
In addition to terminal homing seekers available for JDAM and SDB-I guided bombs there are of course HOJ (Home On Jamming) seekers which onto and target the GPS jammers destroying them.
Shouldn't be too complicated, to build some "home on jam" mechanism for rockets, if the jammers broadcast their position that loudly.
They are usually protected by nearby SHORAD.
Sure, but it will ride on the back of existing systems, HARMs for example, and they need to be delivered from the air which makes them vulnerable, not accounting that in this particular instance you often get outranged.
I'm not saying there would not be some success but for how long and, would it be enough?
Yes that is always a problem for active EW equipment... There are counter or at least preventive doctrines to mitigate this problem.
It's happening right now. Unfortunately it's with very expensive sensor combinations but my Scandi former colleagues have a dedicated home on jam hardware kit ready to go. The software is what's taking time.
It's simple to determine bearing of the jamming emissions, but the range is a challenge due to varying amplitude. You don't want to shoot a "dumb" home on jam over the heads of friends.
In the case of the glsdb, it may end up being as simple as a timer. There are no friends past position x, so after x, then on home on jam.
@@attaque71 jammers are more expensive than home-on-jam missiles. The only reason why russian tactic is working is because it caught the west by surprise. Given time to adjust to these tactics the west will develop such systems, that is if they truly are that useful. The jamming-EW field is a russian specialty, no other western adversary seems to prioritize it so it might be too limited of a use case for the US to invest seriously in this sense. Overall it's not a great idea to rely on jamming, you're spending awful loads of money to make the enemy precision slightly worse, instead of spending those money to improve accuracy and range of your own systems.
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Your ancestors were from Magna Grecia and Iberia :)
Which had fun with some Druids.
excellent summary of the problems, I used to sell INS systems (based on Honeywell Ring Laser Gyros) and have one of those old inertial platforms in my collection (3 north seeking gyros USAF) thanks I do radio as well so appreciate the effort you put into this clip
I don't understand why you so quickly dismissed anti-radiation missiles suppressing the jammers. Such missiles are already well developed, and would be the first option I would exercise.
I wasn't discussing the kinetics in this video. There is not much to say about them , they are well known.
You would see decoy transmitters to spoof the HARMs
They are expensive counter to dumb jammers.
HARM doesn't have to be expensive, it's super cheap simple technology that could be deployed widely, other than two facts. (1) US defense contractors are ridiculously expense and have lock-in by political corruption, and, (2) the U.S. still does NOT anticipate actual superpower conflict where this would be relevant. Hence the US has no mass-production of HARM or similar systems to find active-radars or GPS jammers and just hit them.
Another brilliant episode.
Thank you !
Great presentation. You included elements i did not expect. You did leave out some but thats ok. You are very knowledgable in RF tech.
Oh man I liked the moustache! 😉
You only need presision in the last seconds of flight. So inertia can have presedence. On approach another system can take over, like visual. It would seem you should start the whole battle by taking out radar and spoofing with relatively stupid warheads searching for signal sources.
Russian EW is effective because Ukraine effectively cannot contest the airspace. In a contested airspace, any jamming or spoofing emitter is liable to get HARMed.
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It's the worth the other way - Ukraine depends on NATO assets like AWACS, satelites and drones that can't be shot down without escalation to direct conflict.
@@Statueshop297 Ukraine will lose.
@@tsorevitch2409Russia will shoot AWACS and Satellites if it comes to that
I think that the second their jammers get hit they will switch to the old model of running coax cabels to antennas. The antenna will be cheaper te replace than a harm missile.
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Thanks for your explanation and work
great video!
Very helpful explanation of complex issue!😌😌
The cheapest solution that already exist to the GPS jamming problem is anti radiation missile as jammer constantly emmits signals.
Latest jdams/-ers are supposed to have a limited home on gps jammer capability iirc.
The gbu 48 has a secondary ins solution, the gbu 38 should also have an upgrade with ins
@@thorluis226 As I understand it for JDAM, INS is the primary guidance, gps is used to provide corrections to that. Gbu-48 is an upgrade of paveway 2 (PAVE = LASEr designation) with GPS guidance available for when weather doesn't permit laser designation to be effective. GBU-38 is JDAM so INS + GPS and completely unrelated to gbu-48.
This video explains perfectly how I understand the issue. It even mentions the Kessler, bonus points for that! Can't wait to explore your other vids where I don't know the subject matter and learn something!!
As for location accuracy, my thought is that Terminal guidance by friendly emitters with known locations could be helpful. Small devices with solar panels air dropped into trees, refining their location over time, listening for friendly queries and squaking only then.
One solution I have considered lately is AI driven navigation. One with the ability to keep track of changes of direction and terrain recognition. The fire control technician would provide the drone with a three dimensional map to the target with accurate terrain and structure information of the possible routes. It could use the stars to help navigation but would not be necessary. Once released no amount of signal jamming or spoofing can deter it from accurate weapon delivery.
That's has been in development for about five years with more money and focus since 2022.
Like inertial navigation with enhancements.
@@WJV9 terrain mapping navigation is a very different beast to INS.
That's how the first Tomahawks worked
This doesn't need AI and is called DSMAC. 30+ year aold idea.
Main part of hypersonic speed is it's ability to supress EC.
Saturating the frequencies with noise is also a good idea.
So jamming & spoofing fifty year old GNSS technology is not to be expected, what took so long?
Military Industrial complex. Because The Taliban never used Reflective soles on their Flip Flops.
because all those years they've only fought farmer throwing sandals not some vodka drinking white dude that can fondle with the signals
I learned map reading when I was around 7 years old back in the 1950's topographic maps mostly compass helps but understanding landforms is enough for most of my solo hikes in mountain terrain.
я не услышал главного - почему российские умпк фаб остаются эффективными ? Ответ кажется очевидным - неэффективность или слабая эффективность западных образцов РЭБ и лучшая помехозащищённость ГЛОНАСС приёмников используемых в российских системах вооружения, хотелось бы узнать мнение автора канала....
I found the video fascinating especially the spoofing section.
Anti radiation missiles are another solution that should have been explored more, something that Ukraine lacks.
GPS Jammer constantly emits signals and that is vulnerable to anti radiation missiles.
Which can be shot down by air defence systems
Can they be shot down? Sure... but can they practically do so? Flat no.
Anti radiation missiles are not something you can expect to intersept.
@@Statueshop297lol
@@jop4691 Russia has no success there.
@@guilherme1622 You probably have in mind air launch harm missiles intended against sam radars, jamming antenna can be stronger and further so you would have to go through before mentioned sams to even reach it. Also its just simpler system, its not trying to lock you but only fill the airways with garbage so i would assume its easier to fortify versus harms.
I am oddly happy to see a channel getting a sponsorship segment. It's like attending a child's graduation.
DNA testing is rubbish (send the DNA sample of your pet and you will see it) and why would anyone want his DNA to be a part of someone's database? 😂
Its ridiculous considering how easy its now to map out you family tree online just based on open source records. Huge amount of work has already been done by others, so you rarely have to do much work yourself.
Indeed if completely honest the only way to have them cheap enough for a mass consumer market at this point is to have a super low resolution of data analysis, which gives you something so vague that it's noticably less reliable than than just asking your parents or grandparents
why do you comment something you know nothing about, buddy?
@@thelovacluka I'm pretty sure he means the quality of commercial ancestry tests not the technological ability to do it in general
@@alexdunphy3716 yeah, I know. and he doesn't have any idea about it. I would love to hear exactly what's rubbish and how would the dogs DNA prove anything
An interesting topic. As a non-expert, It seems weird to me that that the solutions presented tend towards high complexity in order to solve the problem type of approach. The problem as I understand it, from a weapon system accuracy point of view, is that the electronic signals from the GNSS and used by the guidance system becomes less reliable near an electronically protected area and inertially bases systems loose accuracy over time and distance for a variety of reasons. Why wouldn't we be able to use the two systems independence to our benefit? The GPS guidance can be used to update/correct the inertial guidance system up to the point that the GPS data reliability looses fidelity. Close to the target, the inertial system in combination with a course projection calculation could help filter out or eliminate GPS position updates/results that could not be within reasonable probability from the projected course. Alternatively on complete loss or loss of confidence in the GPS guidance, the inertial guidance could take over and be reasonably accurate since it only needs to maintain a given course for the last few seconds over a relatively short distance. This certainly wouldn't 'fix' the problem, but it could be done with some coding and existing equipment in the guidance system. If it reduces the CEP to the blast radius of the weapon it would at least be an improvement to missing by 10s or 100s of meters. Perhaps this has already been considered but it's just a thought. Cheers
una faccia, una razza, as we say in Greece :)
Jamming interval was Genius 😀
I DON'T KNOW if something change this last 2 months but Ukraine is using ATACMS very successful and more than that every day they are using jdams on Kharkiv region with great effect...
Hardly lol
@@OzzyBloke I love bots like you...
@@bastordd lol because a few of atacms out of a hundred fired hit a few targets and out of 500 jdams supplied to Ukraine a few hit a target. Well i guess you a right, the Russians might as well pack up and go home 🤡 try keep up bud, embarrassing yourself in a public forum isn't good for your nental health.
@@bastordd yeah with a 5% accuracy its all over for the Russians 🤣🤣🤣
@@OzzyBloke that's excalibur round... We are talking about Jdam bombs... I'm not gonna waste my time with you... When people have videos to prove it...
BTW 3 days to Kiev 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome content!… I learned soooo much, thank you thank you!! 😊
There are so many ways to counter GPS jamming and spoofing. But they're only available with American assets. Ukraine do not have these options, which is basically this war in a nutshell. There are various tactical and strategic problems that is specific to the Russia vs Ukraine conflict that will not be present in a Russia vs NATO war.
Yep! There are 3 new variants of Excalibur that are only in US or NATO hands. Two use a second means of navigation. Excal HTK is like Stormbreaker (SDB II) and can search for a target. Excal S is laser guided on terminal descent. The 3d (Excal 1B) can use shaped trajectories to get a favorable terminal attack angle.
Yeah, like the fact that the Russians will be able to shoot down all of the US’s ISR assets, including the satellites.
Sometimes, being smart makes you weak. That's the problem with guided bombs. They can be deceived because they can think instead of being just a stupid bomb.
Thats why Millenium 7* says the first victim of high tech warfare, is high tech warfare itself
Stupid people are stubborn, smart people second guess everything.
A stupid person only gets things done if they are pointed in the right direction.
A smart person can get things done even if they are pointed in the wrong direction.
@@timodee_art But sometimes, you just have to do it. That's all there is to it. No complexity.
@@timodee_art That's why there are protocols
It’s easy to decive someone who is narcissisticly underestimat its oponent.
What a great video! Nice work.
I mean the HMARS did just take out the S500 Russia’s newest air defense system “designed” for that threat
There is no S-500 in Ukraine. Maybe you mean S-400?
S500 might be deployed to Crimea in near future but it is not designed for HIMARS/GMLRS - it's more like of the THAAD equivalent. Also, S300s and even S400s (withdrawn due to quality problems) were shooting GMLRS and other missiles quite well; if they failed, like on spectacular video - it was mostly due to staff mistake.
You can't make claims like that without proof.
HMARS are beeing shoot down in massive scale.here and there one goes through on the other hand american ad shoot 1 in 10 down and gets blown up easily.the funny part is the US think they can with their airpower overpower Russian AD but like to forgett tha Russia has more AD than the US has aircrafts😂
@@mirkodizdar3700 citation needed
Very interesting and well made video, covering many topics in this field of warfare not often discussed. Cheers!
As predicted by Brian Berletic years ago…
Kid is aware of problems and how system work...
Dear Augusto I noticed what you are telling at 11:24. Now I have a new Samsung Mobil phone, before I had the Russian Yotaphone 2 and Yotaphone 3+ the Yotaphones used GPS and the GLONASS, the navigation with the phones who used both systems was fare more accurate than with the new phones who only use GPS.