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Originally Posted by Guppy
Well, yes, but I was thinking of something a bit more recent. A forty-year-old example of a Ghost really shouldn't be enough to devise a preprogrammed ECM mode capable of completely disabling the latest models (unless, of course, somebody went and made Microsoft the UN Spacy's prime software contractor). 
Of course, the Vajra could be simply using sheer brute-force white noise on the command frequencies, but if they have that kind of power output then why aren't they simply blanking out the sensors and comms on all the Valkyries too? Take away their missiles and computer-controlled gunsights, and those VF-171s suddenly aren't even worth stopping to deal with - just ignore them and blow past toward the capital ships. SMS's VF-25s would be more of a threat, but even their effectiveness would be reduced, and saturating the fleet's inner defences would be much easier than it actually turned out. |
well if you want something recent, you could say they learnt it from the 117th (research) fleet that they wiped out 11yrs ago
after all, all fleets have some form of UN Spacy escort, as evidence of Ozma present at the scene.
But i personally think it's a brute force method as well as a combination of at leased a rudimentary knowledge of UN Federation communication technology.
You notice in the first episode, that the Vf-25 and the 117th comms were affected as well, they had static and video-link degrading.
Obviously the manned fighters have better EM protection then robots, due to the fact that you only need to shield vital system and not the entire system including the piloting A.I. itself.