As modern militaries confront increasingly electronic warfare-saturated battlefields, an Israeli defense firm says it sees an opening in providing anti-jam capabilities to increasingly small platforms like drones and, eventually, GPS-guided munitions themselves to “make smart munitions smart again.”
“You can get a small, handheld jammer on a random Chinese website that can kill GPS signals for hundreds of meters or take down UAVs from kilometers away,” Omer Sharar, cofounder and CEO of infiniDome, told Breaking Defense in a recent interview. “That is the jamming threat. It is like in cyber with a denial-of-service attack. When you flick the switch on, nothing has a GNSS [Global Navigation Satellite Systems] signal.”