[Question] Can Comms Jamming Affect Weapon Data Links?

[boogabooga]

As title says. If a weapon has a radio-based datalink, can that be jammed by the comms jammers?

Also, what does it mean for a comm link to be "secure" in the context of comms jamming?

[Raptorx7_slith]

A comm-link being secure implies its protected by some sort of encryption or has characteristics that make it hard to listen in on/jam like frequency hopping

[blu3s]

I think you cannot use the feature to jam datalinks but you can use Lua to simulate it

-- Get the weapon you want to JAM
local unit = SE_GetUnit({name='MIM-104D Patriot PAC-2 GEM #26', guid='wt2boy-0hnd1kk3qqgbf'})

print(unit:filterOnComponent('commdevice'))-- Here you can obtain the GUID of the datalink you want to jam

--Using that GUID then you can apply the JAM to the datalink
unit.components = {comp_guid = 'WT2BOY-0HND1KK3QQGBC',comp_comms_jammed=true}

The DL will be broken with the parent unit.