How The U.S. Military Plans To Hijack The Airwaves

[jakeXT]

If you want to take over a nation, then first take over its airwaves. Broadcast your messages and interdict the enemy’s ability to broadcast theirs. When the U.S. attacked Iraq in 1991, or NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, among the first targets destroyed were TV and radio stations. When there is a military coup in Africa, the first buildings the rebels usually grab are the radio and TV studios.

So it is illuminating that the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the organization that oversees America’s elite special forces, is quietly searching for equipment that will effectively give it control over every FM and AM radio station in an area. The short, innocuous-sounding announcement on the Federal Business Opportunities site states that SOCOM seeks vendors to provide “a radio broadcast system capable of searching for and acquiring every AM and FM radio station in a specific area and then broadcasting a message(s) in the target area on all acquired AM and FM radio station frequencies.” SOCOM wants equipment that is both lightweight and sophisticated enough to detect and broadcast over multiple frequencies simultaneously. And SOCOM wants it fast. The equipment must be at least Technology Readiness Level 8, a Pentagon measure of technological maturity that means that it is fully developed, tested and ready for use.

“It appears that SOCOM is looking to purchase a preferably commercial off the shelf friendly-foreign or domestic advanced form of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) as a solution for their tactical and theater Psyops or MISO missions,” says a military expert who asked to remain anonymous. “The exact platform – whether it’s ground-based or airborne – cannot be determined from the solicitation. It would appear to be an urgent request because of the TRL 8 or above stipulation. ”

This is what the Pentagon now calls Military Information Support Operations, or MISO. This is a far less sinister name for what the rest of us call Psychological Operations, or Psyops. that subtle form of warfare that uses carefully tailored information – truthful or not – to change foreign hearts and minds in a way that furthers U.S. interests.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/09/17/how-the-u-s-military-plans-to-hijack-the-airwaves/

[jmowreader]

1. You mean how they plan to TRY to hijack the airwaves

I can think of two ways to do this.

One is to build some sort of frequency hopping jammer. How you would make a freq hopper sound decent I don't know, but it would cut down on the amount of power you'd have to transmit to take out all the stations in an area.

The other would be to transmit on all stations simultaneously...which would require a generator that weighs 150,000 pounds to power it. (Caterpillar makes them and they are fucking huge.)

[Mnemosyne]

2. And they would never do that here...nt

[gopiscrap]

3. I wouldn't put it past the military to do this

also you know that a great number of cops are former military....