Anti-Weapons: Russian Scientists Threaten to Halt Space War

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by Vladimir Bogdanov
Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Moscow) October 18, 2002
Is it possible for one eccentric professor to neutralize the enormous
years-long labors of thousands of highly skilled scientists,
engineers, and workers to develop precision "smart weapons" at the
cost of tens of billions of dollars? "Easy," as they say in Russia. A
St. Petersburg scientist, Dr. of Technical Sciences Valentin
Vladimirovich Kashinov, has managed to do just that. With his
inventions he has virtually "shut down" western efforts to create 21st
century weapons, precision "smart" weapons which find targets based on
information from satellites, and thus are today considered nearly one
hundred percent effective. Valentin Kashinov made his "contribution"
to the defense capability of the US and NATO, practically knocking out
the latest, multi-billion dollar military space system, and at the
same time raising doubts about the advisability of Washington's
development of a national ABM defense.
Summoning Missiles to the Oven
In the heat of massed missile strikes on Belgrade and Yugoslavian air
defense radar positions in the spring of 1999, the telephone rang one
night in a St. Petersburg apartment.
It was the chairman of the radio club of Yugoslavia, Khranislav
Milocevic. Valentin Kashinov answered. The Yugoslav described the
great destruction and casualties caused by strikes of NATO aircraft,
"HARM" air-to-ground missiles, and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Milocevic
asked for help in fending off these bombardments. Valentin
Vladimirovich immediately inquired if they had any microwave ovens.
This was followed by a puzzled silence, and then: "Of course!"
Kashinov advised that they get some ordinary microwave ovens and aim
them upwards, with doors open, around an installation they wanted to
protect, and then turn them on. Khranislav understood at once. The
fact was that an American HARM missile would home in on any strong
source of radio emission in the 400-10,000 MHz range, exactly the
range of conventional household microwave ovens. Literally the next
day following this conversation, NATO forced bombed their own
embassies in Belgrade.
NATO pilots were fooled, and bombed microwave ovens instead of Serbian
tanks for nearly half the time of the air attacks.
According to a British officer who spent six months in the region and
offered his own assessment of bombing damage, the Serbs lured the NATO
planes using household microwave ovens to simulate the emissions of
armored transport systems.
The NATO propaganda machine initially announced that more than 100
tanks, 250 APCs, and 389 cannon had been destroyed. These damage
figures have since been revised, since independent observers found
only 13 tanks knocked out. As it turned out, the same targets were
targeted (and destroyed) repeatedly by different pilots.
A NATO officer who gave an anonymous interview to the British Herald
stated that only three tanks were found. "The Serbs use a lot of
tricks to elude NATO bombs. The use of microwave ovens from houses in
Kosovo to thumb their noses at the alliance was only one of their
ruses."
The beauty of Serbian countermeasures lay in the fact that it demanded
nothing of them, since they used 100-dollar decoy devices (microwave
ovens) which were available in every household. And the guided bombs
cost around 30,000 dollars.. They also studied Iraq's experience in
the "Gulf War" (or rather, "Desert Fox," when they jammed the American
GPS satellite system).
As for the military operation "Desert Storm" against Iraq in 1991, it
is now clear that the Americans almost lost it, again thanks to the
inventions of Russian scientist Valentin Kashinov. According to
information from the Reuters agency, at the time American planes in
Iraq were able to hit less than a third of their marked targets. Most
of the bombs dropped on Iraq failed to hit their targets. Most of them
"hit the sand," as they say. According to reports from US Navy
representatives, the bombs fell at a distance of several tens of
meters from the target. Of twenty-five radars, only eight were
destroyed. Nearly all the guided AGM-154A bombs deviated sharply to
the left. According to Navy representatives, this was because of an
error in the guidance software system. But again the Americans
prevaricated. The simple fact was that the entire space guidance
system didn't work.
A Mini-Jammer for Bombs and Satellites
In the last ten years, America has tried to fight by the contact-free
method, without shedding the blood of its soldiers. The US beat the
Taliban regime in six weeks without a single casualty! In these six
weeks they achieved political and strategic goals which the USSR was
unable to achieve in 10 years of ground war in Afghanistan losing tens
of thousands of soldiers.
America is quietly cutting its ground forces. Divisions remain only on
paper. The US no longer needs an infantry. The Navy and Air Force
remain, but only as carriers of munitions to theaters of military
action. The US is building itself an ABM system, but as a secondary,
half measure. Their chief goal is to create a space infrastructure, in
the guise of an ABM system, to fight future contact-free wars.
Precision "smart" weapons now take center stage. These find their
targets from information transmitted by satellite, and thus, their
creators believe, they are nearly one hundred percent effective. "But
that is only in the minds of the creators," Valentin Kashinov
believes. "What is the actual case? Some of the Tomahawks flew off
into Macedonia and Bulgaria in the Yugoslavia campaign, and some
self-destructed in the air."
After the famous telephone conversation, the Petersburg scientist
e-mailed a plan to Yugoslavia for a simple radio device which could
suppress the signals of the American NAVSTAR GPS satellite navigation
system. Deprived of their satellite guide, the missile was "blinded."
Result: about 10 percent of the cruise missiles failed to reach their
target. According to a BBC report, 28 missiles self-destructed in the
air in a single raid.
The American NAVSTAR GPS satellite navigation system is the NATO
standard for all types of weapons-ships, aircraft, including cruise
missiles and guided bombs, tanks, and even individual soldiers. It has
been been successfully developed for ten years now. The system is
reliable and user-friendly, and all combat arms have gotten used to it
and trust it without question. The GPS accuracy is 10 meters and its
operating zone is the entire planet.
The US has even tried to introduce the GPS as the standard for the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), but this did not
happen for many reasons, particularly because of its extremely low
resistance to the slightest interference.
Without going into the technical details, let us say only that Russian
scientists conducted an experiment with Ashtech GPS receivers of the
OEM "Sensor" type (which can easily be purchased in Moscow). The
experiment showed that inference in the form of a carrier wave of any
frequency between 1576 and 1578 MHz with a radiated power of -55 dB
blocked reception of satellite signals by a receiver located nearby.
If we do the math, a few watts of power, about what a flashlight uses,
is enough to jam GPS signals within line of sight at a distance of up
to 500 km.
Thus so-called GPS mini-jammers can have a power of a few watts. The
jamming area is line of sight, and for a Tomahawk cruise missile
traveling at a height of 25 meters is 20 kilometers.
The Storm Hits the Sand
Today, when the Americans are intensifying preparations for a new
military operation against Iraq (which, according to some data, will
cost the US 200 billion dollars), Kashinov's mini-jammers may again be
in demand. Especially since, it turns out, Baghdad has used them very
successfully since 1991.
Valentin Kashinov relates: "Before Desert Storm began, I sent a
registered letter to Baghdad suggesting that they use such rudimentary
transmitters for electronic warfare (EW) against the American GPS
navigational system. The Iraqis immediately adopted this suggestion.
An organized team of specialists traveled through the desert setting
up transmitters. US and British planes hunted this team, and continue
to do so, for the war against Iraq has not halted even for a minute. I
learned from the mass media that more than 100 Tomahawks have
self-destructed in the air en route to Iraq. These missiles have
built-in receivers and control computers. Before flight, a program of
the flight trajectory and target coordinates are entered in the
computer. The job of the mini-jammers is to create interference on the
airwaves which prevents reception of satellite signals. The
phase-modulated signals used in the GPS are still considered the
height of interference resistance, but that is not the case. It is a
serious miscalculation. The optimal interference for jamming
phase-modulated signals is simply a detuned carrier wave. A simpler EW
device could not be imagined. A self-destruct program is included in
the computer for just this case. And this means that the Tomahawk is
by no means a flawless weapon, as the Americans have assured the
entire world. Nor is the widely trumpeted American NAVSTAR GPS
satellite navigation system, which consists of 24 satellites on orbit,
and compact palm-sized receiver/ displays. They show the location of
an object in any coordinate system, as well as the speed and height of
displacement. But the higher-tech the weapon, the more easily it can
be suppressed. Western scientists have generally forgotten how to
think; the computer is supposed to think for them."
Stealth Armor Covers the Whole Country
It should be noted that during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the
Russian scientist sent Brussels a description of the anti-weapon
against the NAVSTAR GPS system, warning that if they did not cease
their outrages, he would publish methods for "rubbing out" other
navigational systems as well, for example TACAN, DME, LORAN, etc.
And these means enormous losses for the West. It has been calculated
that because of Kashinov's mini-jammers, which virtually put the
NAVSTAR system out of commission, the Americans lost 80 billion
dollars and 20 years of work by their scientists. According to
available information, today they are trying to develop a new system,
since the GPS system cannot be improved, and this will require time
and money. So the US will hardly be able to develop an ABM system with
guaranteed effectiveness.
You see, the arsenal of anti-weapons includes devices which create
short, or as they are called, "nanosecond" pulses of electromagnetic
radiation of enormous power, exceeding the power of a nuclear burst.
When they act on modern high- tech microcircuits (transistor diameter
less than the thickness of a human hair), in the best case these
emissions create system glitches, and in the worst case they put the
microcircuits out of commission. Naturally, the weapon controlled by
the computer which is destroyed by the pulse is also knocked out, be
it a missile, ship, or tank.
Portable space navigational system jammers produced by a Russian
company were first displayed at the Moscow International Aerospace
Show in 1997, provoking genuine shock and horror among military users
of these navigation systems.
Of course, as they say, it is impossible to shut down America, and
this is the normal course of the rivalry between armor and projectile.
But today "Russian armor" can reliably protect, for some time, any
country which desires it.