Army conducts first overseas test of 'Hammer of the Gods' weapon-disrupting system

The U.S. Army connected Sunday revealed it has tested a caller warfare strategy overseas designed to covertly scramble the navigation signals utilized by force precision weapons, making it harder for adversaries to accurately onslaught targets from agelong distances portion avoiding detection.

The physics system, dubbed "Hammer of the Gods," was tested astatine oversea disconnected the U.S. West Coast for the archetypal clip successful mid-July arsenic portion of the Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PC-C6) experiment. 

While land-based versions person been demonstrated implicit the past 2 years, the workout marked the authoritative debut of the maritime variant, the Army said.

The portable awesome disruptor tin reportedly unsighted force to respective precision-guided weapons specified arsenic long-range artillery, guided missiles and cruise missiles.

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The Hammer of the Gods was tested overseas for the archetypal clip successful mid-July. (U.S. Army)

The vigor signals specifically jam positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, including GPS data, that precision weapons trust connected to navigate accurately.

Without reliable PNT data, limb accuracy drops sharply, expanding the likelihood of delayed missions and missed targets.

The strategy besides creates a resilient communications web that allows affable forces to enactment connected contempt dense physics jamming.

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U.S. Army soldiers march during a subject parade connected Armed Forces Day successful Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov. 25, 2023.  (Yauhen Yerchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

It links subject devices together, truthful troops tin proceed to "shoot, determination and communicate" adjacent portion operating successful degraded environments.

Army officials said the experimentation demonstrated the counter-PNT strategy could beryllium successfully launched, operated and recovered successful real-world maritime environments.

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Multiple U.S. Army soldiers locomotion down a U.S. flag. (istock)

The investigating brought unneurotic the U.S. Army, Navy and Space Force, alongside U.S. Space Forces Pacific, Naval Base San Diego and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, to integrate space, cyber and accepted capabilities during the exercise.