With technological advancement in modern warfare the dependency on electronics have become too far from the time when everything used to be analogue and mechanical. More than they should have. A modern and advance fighter jet. Lockheed Martin F35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a good example for these overblown electronics flying machine.

Although the achievement in JSF since the earlier versions of fighters is astonishing but overuse and high dependency on electronics makes it vulnerable and less reliable. There are many redundancies for almost every onboard device, but the failure is not of those devices, it can come from a defence mechanism from the unfriendly side.

To take down a JSF is quite easy. The weapon that would do the job will not even need to leave the ground.

A modern-day problem needs a modern day-solution.

A modern fighter packed with electronics can be brought down with electronic warfare, not rockets, and not faster fighter jets.

Joint-strike means multiple fighters can form a joint front and use each other’s location and equipment to complete an attack. Each individual pilot can have access to the equipment onboard of similar fighter in the same area to launch an attack from a different angle or lead the attack. This function needs a lot of communication power and satellites overhead to create a web of attack fighting mechanism. Fancy? This is the Achilles heel, their weakness.

To bring down a JSF you do not need to shoot it down, you easily take out the satellites that allow them to communicate and take out the GPS satellites that allow them to navigate. To make sure they do not have access to any kind of navigation system, while you are at it, you take out the Russians and Chinese GPS satellites too. This way, with the guidance system is taken out completely, JSF are blinded and have no choice but to go back home. Their weapon and navigation systems heavily rely on GPS signals and cannot operate without them. They will be grounded for years until the GPS network is restored. The JSF are good over their own base and a bit go outside to browse, without navigation they would be lost and must rely on landmarks to make their way back. The multi-billion-dollar equipment is useless and a piece of junk if it has no eyes in the sky for guidance and navigation. It cannot even leave the ground. JSF are like a 2-year-old that cannot go out of parent’s sight.

The next modern warfare weapon will not be a bigger and better jet fighter or a drone, it will be a cheap electronics warfare device that would take out the satellites and anything that flies.

Billions of dollars are spent every year to create a symptom that will bring a lot of problems in a near future. JSF is a very fancy and expensive problem that will haunt us for next 30 years, it will cost the taxpayers billions to maintain it; on top of billions they paid for this over-priced toy.