spot jamming

The jamming of a specific channel or frequency. See also barrage jamming; electronic warfare; jamming.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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spot jamming - electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency

electronic jamming, jamming, jam - deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

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The same denial effect is achieved by spot jamming without the protagonist having to develop physical methods of interfering with space-related infrastructure.

Command and control vulnerabilities to communications jamming

Thales Land & Joint Systems Division entered the jamming market following the evolution towards more sophisticated systems such as spot jammers; the TRC-274 software-defined jammer has evolved into the TRC-274 FPJ (Force Protection Jammer) with built-in ESM allowing to analyse the threat in order to carry out focused jamming, although a selection between barrage jamming and spot jamming can be made by the user.

Silencing the bomb path

They gave a jamming bandwidth of only about 5 MHz, but they could be electrically tuned very rapidly and so were ideal for spot jamming. At that time, the power output of the VTM was only a few watts, so in the MSJ, we used them to drive a wideband traveling-wave-tube amplifier.

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