can we create a mobile magnet field to disrupt receiver; transmitter style ieds?

Question

mobile magnetic field device for military armorment to create a perimater to disrupt transmitter reciever style detenators(i.e.d.s)

Answer 1

Military jamming of communications signals is done, "all the time". Jammers are very powerful so a mobile unit would likely be carried on a Hummer, not in a backpack, as the power supply would tend to be large.

Jamming signals always requires prior knowledge of the communication frequencies the enemy is using. This information is gathered by intelligence and surveillance. For IEDs this would be difficult, not impossible, but difficult.

If jammers were to be used, there would also be the danger of setting off the IED with the jammer transmitter, too.

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Answer 2

particular, in the event that they're radio triggered. while you're talking approximately Iraq, however, lots of the IED's are not that complicated. The savages are not that state-of-the-paintings. often they're basically a stress-triggered land mine, that's particularly hassle-free to do, i could have one finished via the tip of the day. particularly basic. i've got under no circumstances been in a position to determine why we in simple terms have not related a sequence of wheels with chain drags on an prolonged pole out in front of the vans to set off the mines before we run over them. that's a primitive technologies besides the incontrovertible fact that it works. They did that in the time of WWII for the coastline assaults and it works like a charm in spite of the actuality that it sounds as though stupid. My wager is the armed forces contractors won't be able to make tens of millions (or I could say billions) off of a few thing that straightforward, so it is no longer finished.