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Re:Chinese balloon gathered Intel from military sites despit... by News-Dog on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:33AM (#35425501)
>collect ELINT from the balloon the transmitters on the balloon were too powerful to jam

No need to to disrupt the transmitters on the balloon that are up-linking data to the satellites.

Simply overload the balloons' C&C receiver front-end, given the closer proximity of the shadowing aircraft.

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Re:Chinese balloon gathered Intel from military sites despit... by 71a54xd on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:50PM (#35427141)
I've talked to a fried who works on these kinds of systems (ex-defense industry). He claims that the reports of the US having trouble jamming are pretty accurate.

Of course, when I asked him to elaborate he said "yeah, can't really tell you the specifics haha"

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Re:Chinese balloon gathered Intel from military sites despit... by News-Dog on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:14PM (#35427580)
yeah, it is very easy, and I'm trying to be very non-specific.
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