The US will soon start deploying Meadowlands jammers against Russian and Chinese satellites

The US Space Force will put into operation an anti-satellite electronic warfare system called Meadowlands in the coming year. They have already completed the final tests, which lasted an additional two years.

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This system is designed to interfere with the communication systems of space satellites. Unlike many similar systems, such as the Russian 14C227 Tobol, which jams GPS in Europe, it is implemented on a mobile chassis.

The Meadowlands systems are scheduled to be commissioned in 2025. While they were being developed into combat-ready models, their developer, the American giant L3Harris, managed to produce five such systems.

They will be delivered to the US Space Force's Space Delta 3 electronic warfare unit.

As explained by Defence Express, Meadowlands is the result of the development of the system known as CCS (Counter Communications System) 10 and the implementation of the Block 10.2 version, which L3Harris was awarded the contract to develop back in 2014.

The first version of CCS, Block 10.0, was first deployed in 2004 with three systems, and the upgraded version, Block 10.1, has seven systems. Block 10.2 was originally planned for 16 units, but the order was apparently doubled.

Due to its mobility and the number of such systems, Meadowlands will allow for rapid deployment in designated areas, creating continuous zones where the enemy will not have access to satellites. This, in turn, will give the United States a significant advantage over the enemy, in particular by depriving it of satellite communications and navigation systems.

The main targets of this system will be the satellite groups of the Russian Federation and China. In particular, we are talking about military satellite communications systems, which in these countries are represented by a fairly large number of spacecraft.

Source: Defence Express