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The military have ones which can be dropped from air and are much more powerful.



How long do their batteries hold out? (I'm assuming batteries because "dropped from the air".) If they're "much" more powerful (than the quoted 3-4W) then I'd have some serious doubts that they're useful for much more than a short period of time. That said, I can think of operational scenarios where denying your enemy/target radio/GSM access for even an hour might be useful. Still interested to know the operating time, though...


I don't know the details and they are probably classified anyway. I know about the jammers from a person I worked with as a CS student. This was a project on improving frequency assignment algorithms in battlefield radio networks. We (the university) did the algorithms and they (military) did the reality checks on why a theoretically good assignment doesn't work in reality.


The military has phased array radar on airplanes that can wipe out communications over a gigantic swath of spectrum.




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