Anti-radiation missiles are useful also as an assassination weapons

EA-18 "Growler", electronic warfare version
of F/A-18 "Hornet"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa


The Anti-radiation missiles are the very complicated thing because normally those weapons destroy only the radar stations. And those missiles are normally shown as the weapons, what destroys only material, but there is one aspect in those anti-radiation missiles. They can take off any radio-equipment on the battlefield. This means that some fighter-bomber flies above the battlefield and then it shoots the missile, what would home to the radio-transmitters.


That might cause that all patrol of enemy soldiers would die if some AGM-88 HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile) would hit the radio, what those soldiers use. And HARM is not only anti-radiation missile in the world. Also, Stingers have made the version, what can home to the radio-targets. Those missiles can also shoot from ground vehicles and warships for destroying enemy radar and communication equipment.


And those missiles would be devastating if they are used against land troops. The problem with modern military personnel is that they would use radios all the time, and then those men would become "perfect targets" for anti-radiation missiles. But the HARM-type weapons can also use to destroy other communication equipment than field radios. They are useful against WLAN-networks because they can destroy the WLAN-support stations. That's why there is investigating the laser-cased networks, what would deny the use of radio-based networks.


These newest versions of the WLAN-systems would also store the information inside them, and send them the data with short bursts, what makes very difficult to locate those stations. Laser-based communication has one problem, and It's visibility in infrared systems. And in some cases, the infrared homing missiles can take that system off. But the terrifying threat is those anti-radiation missiles can be used as an assassination weapon. That kind of weapons can be programmed to lock on in the cell phones, what uses some certain SIM-cards. And then those missiles would shoot straight to those targeted persons.


This technology has been created by use in anti-terrorist operations, and the idea of this is that intelligence services would send some SIM-cards to terrorists, and then would some EA-18 "Growler" electronic warfare platform target HARM-missiles to those cell-phones. The reason, why we must be concern about this technology is, that it can be misused.That means somebody might give information about the business competitors SIM-card and then some airplane would shoot that person away. That is one of the terrifying scenarios of that technology.


Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler


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