WASHINGTON — Iraq may have obtained as many as 400 electronic "jammers" that could throw America's smart bombs off their programmed path if the U.S. goes to war, Fox News has learned.
There is "real concern at the highest levels" at the Pentagon that Baghdad may have purchased the jammers from a Russian firm, a senior defense official said.
Fox News obtained exclusive pictures of the jammers from a U.S. military intelligence report.
The Pentagon doesn't know how effective the jammers could be, but they have been known to interrupt a global positioning signal (GPS). That, in turn, could confuse and throw off America's satellite-guided precision weapons.
Officials said that if the smart bombs are diverted from their designated targets, no one knows what, or whom, they might hit instead. The worst-case scenario is they might fall on civilian sites and kill innocent people, causing collateral damage.
