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Originally Posted by GGTharos
You can't really jam the datalink either, since the antenna is in the -rear- of the missile ... at least, you can't jam it easily - you would need some serious jamming power to pull it off /or/ you would need to have the jammer somewhere between you and the launcher, or behind the launcher.
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Not true. Remember, a datalink has transmitters and receivers on both ends. If the launcher unit transmitter/receiver is jammed, the system won't work.
Even the wired version has the potential to be jammed/disrupted, since it still uses a coded beacon in the tail of the missile that's tracked by the launcher. If you had a laser mounted on in a trainable turret on the target vehicle (ala DIRCMS), you could zap the launcher optics, which (in addition to losing sight of the target) could cause the laucher to lose track of the missile.