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Old 12th Jun 2016, 01:23
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underfire
 
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Such a jamming signal would be competing with a power-budget constrained transmitter on satellites orbiting at approximately 20200 km altitude.
You have a moving target with multiple signals coming from multiple directions. In addition, the IRU would cover the temporary outage.
Tracking and jamming one aircraft may be possible with low power, if you could track it, but to jam an area would take a wide beam, and that takes power for that altitude.
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