I absolutely agree on an electronic warfare aircraft, helicopter, or added to the EMP technology by the year 2035 will be very convenient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Reconnaissance_Platoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_weapon

This is covering the full scale of EW, not just Aerial, those were just the best examples which are pretty common knowledge/easy to source.

I like the idea but I dont want this to turn into a "Who can hack your turrets the fastest" competition. If done right this could add a whole new dimention to the game. Edit: EMP mines sound like a good idea.

no, this isn't sci fi.

drones aren't automatic, they're controlled by people. if you want automatic, then say goodbye to precision, accuracy, finesse and geneva convention since plenty of civilians will get mowed down. good job.

"emp" anything would be useless, especially a mine, since it's going to what? knock out the equipment of 5 or 6 soldiers in its vicinity?

Hacking the turrets was just a spitball idea, though i'm guessing most "common" missions won't utilize turrets too much.

Negating the ability of a soldier to use their radio ingame, in the case we had something similar to ACRE, taking a vehicle out of commission or taking down some of the land drones we'll see later in the game, yea i'd say that'd make a big difference.

Speaking of non automatic drones, explain to me why there's going to be an autonomous drone in the game later as suggested by earlier screenshots.

So, dem votes.

i 100000000000% agree, EVERYTHING you said there was true, an actual war game with electronic warfare properly implemented has been never seen in any videogame, yes, you are exagerating in the things you could do with that a bit, but mostly the use of radio towers and the use of hacking (for the record: i am talking about hacking to get intel/footage, not a Deus Ex style "hacking a turret and make it shoot the bad guys") are things that i REALLY hope they make it into the game

I vote against this. I dont think its realistic that a platoon, or squads do jamming. Im pro EW in aircraft, but on the ground... nah, wont work, not implementable in a realistic manner.

i like the part with the radios but hacking turrets? drones? dude seriously...

Yeah lol@Ender, that's totally ridiculous BF3 style.

like i said, hacking turrets and drones is more like BO2 or Deus Ex style... but yeah, hacking radios and intercepting radio messages in both MP or SP would be awesome

Yeah... But it's not realistic is you have 2 regular armies fighting eachother. You can't hack radios, you can't intercept and translate encrypted radio waves. What you CAN do is jam a frequency range so it cannot be used. But it's not equipment a single soldier can carry with him, so to say :)

Let me rephrase the jamming part, it wouldn't be on a per person basis.

In all likely hood it would be with some type of gadget which would either be used from a vehicle or placed somewhere more than likely.

Not to mention everything is up to the mission editor.

Ender, look into military tech at current.

We're already slated to get drones at release. BI might of already thought of some of these things.

Seems to me you two have been living in the dark ages.

Pilot, you're completely wrong, not all radio messages are encrypted either. The US, Britain, etc. have intercepted the taliban, translated it, etc.

In every major war Electronic warfare has played a part. Information warfare plays an even bigger part ever since WWII.

You could place a jamming device on a radio tower or the like pilot.

Everything is based on the mission editors choice.

SGTice, I am not wrong. I said regular armies, self-respecting ones lol, use encrypted radio transmissions in times of war. Especially if important intell is shared.

I don't recall the Taliban being a regular army lol. They use cell phones and walkie talkies to communicate, and yes, those can be recorded and translated.

Placing a jammer on a radio tower is Hollywood bullshit and has nothing to do with reality.

Like I said earlier, radio jamming is possible. To jam radio you need a big power source and then you just block out a certain frequency range by transmitting your own jamming signal over it. This means YOU cant use these frequencies either. If you want to jam a broader frequency range, you need more power. If you want more range, you need more power.

Even established armies can be jammed, ease dropped on & have their messages decoded/translated. It's been going on for years.

Not when it comes to a radio tower being used for communications.

Hence the point of bases, FOBs, etc.

I agree, it would be a good feature, if implemented realistically. I would suggest that if, for example, a team is in a zone, where the radios are jammed, they should still be able to communicate in view distance with hand signs.

SGTice, ofcourse, everything can be jammed. Jamming is VERY simple. But eavesdropping/decoding/translating? No... If encryption (+Frequency hopping) is used it will not be decoded. Maybe years and years later, but I guess that's useless huh?
Unsecure transmissions can be intercepted ofcourse. You could even do some spoofing as an enemy. It's just that I don't think armies will work with unsecure comms.

I don't understand what you're trying to say with your point of bases and FOBs with their radio towers... But like I said earlier, it's Hollywood bullshit to put a jammer on one of those towers lol.

Also, all of this will be useless in-game, when people use 3rd party software to communicate, like TeamSpeak.

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