ARMY SNAPS UP JAMMERS

For at least six months, mil­i­tary types have been talk­ing up how great Warlock radio fre­quency jam­mers have been at stop­ping road­side bombs in Iraq — and how few U.S. troops actu­ally had the gagdets.
But the Army is get­ting wise. Back in December, they beefed up the $4.7 mil­lion Warlock bud­get by $42 mil­lion. Yesterday, Army vice chief of staff Gen. Richard Cody announced that the Army is “buy­ing over 8,000 elec­tronic jam­mers,” accord­ing to the AFP.
The jam­mers are “no sil­ver bul­let” against the impro­vised explo­sive devices, or IEDs, Cody warned. But still, it’s a good move; they’ve helped con­tribute to a 40 per­cent drop in IED casu­al­ties, the General said. Let’s just hope the pur­chase doesn’t have any­thing to do with the fact that the New York Times high­lighted the Warlock short­age on page A1 a few weeks back.

March 18th, 2005 | Bomb Squad | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.