Space Force to deploy new jammers to yell at enemy satellites

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In space, they apparently can hear screams.

By: NICHOLAS SLAYTON for Task & Purpose

The U.S. military’s youngest branch, Space Force, turned five years old on Friday.

Like other young institutions it’s spent its time rapidly growing, building up the number of guardians, rapidly launching a large array of satellites into orbit and winning Call of Duty tournaments. In its latest move, Space Force is taking aim at enemy space ships and satellites with a new ground-based jamming system, which according to reports, work like endless, loud, annoying screams. Space Force plans to start deploying nearly a dozen of its remote modular terminal jamming systems Defense News first reported on the plan.

Noting that the jammers will be “immediately” in guardians’ hands for additional tests and usage. The move will start with fielding 11 of the terminal systems, although the project, developed through the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, has money for more than 150. The exact locations of where they will be deployed wasn’t announced. The U.S. military has been working on building up early warning systems and communications relays around the globe, including on strategically important islands such as Guam.