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U.S.-Led Forces Destroy GPS Jamming Systems in Iraq
By Jeremy Singer
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 10:48 am ET
25 March 2003
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Untitled WASHINGTON -- U.S.-led coalition forces have destroyed six devices being used by Iraqis to try to jam signals from the GPS satellite navigation and weapon-guidance system, a U.S. senior military officer said. Speaking to reporters during a March 25 briefing in Qatar, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart, director of operations at U.S. Central Command, said that in one instance, the jamming device was destroyed with a GPS-guided bomb. Another Pentagon official, speaking March 24, said Iraqi attempts to jam GPS using devices allegedly supplied by a Russian company have not succeeded. The Pentagon has anticipated the possibility of facing GPS jammers in combat for "some time," said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "And what we have found is, through testing and through actual practice now, that they are not having a negative effect on the air campaign at this point," McChrystal told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. U.S. President Bush raised concerns during a March 24 telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin that a Russian company had provided GPS jamming equipment to the Iraqi military, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters during a March 24 briefing at the White House. Putin assured Bush he would "look into it," Fleischer said. "Senior U.S. government officials have repeatedly raised this issue with their Russian counterparts over the past year in hopes the Russian government will move more aggressively to cut the cooperation from this company or the companies involved," Fleischer said.
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