Why the Russians did not use this technology earlier remains puzzling ... and why Dudeyev used a satellite phone which made him a sitting duck is even less clear.
Dave Emery die@die.com
But there has been an easy defense against such for decades. You run ordinary phone wire from the transmitter + antenna X meters back to the bunker or whatever. Then you talk from there. X varies as afunction of the expected incoming. I bought some surplus 1950's era field telephones with this option built it -- they had a 150v B-battery [NOW i'm dating myself] that was dropped across the pair when you squeezed the handset Push-to-Talk. At the far end, a relay closed & turned on the transmitter. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433