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Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 16 2018, @02:43PM   
from the tracking-device-which-also-happens-to-make-calls dept.

canopic jug writes:

Soldiers stupid and disobedient enough to carry their own tracking devices into the field on operations are teaching their units harsh lessons when entering combat. The Association of the United States Army, the U.S. Army's professional association and lobbying group, has an article on how mobile phones are used against soldiers carrying them in the field. This includes, but is not limited to, psychological operations, artillery strikes, monitoring, or all three at once. Given the lax discipline about leaving the mobile phones behind, the attacks built on phone info have been increasingly successful both physically and mentally.

[Ed Note: The second link details how Russian backed separatists are using advanced EW and psyops tactics against the Ukrainian Armed Forces]

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• pfft. (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:51PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:51PM (#722266)

  Ever since First Chechen War have they used signals from comms equipment for targeted assassinations, that i know of.

  Dzohar Dudaev (president of Chechnya, First Chechen War) was murdered by Russian government in a similar way in 1996.

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