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A sensor jammer was a type of jammer capable of blocking or fooling sensors. Powerful generators flooded areas with static and random signals, effectively overwhelming and confusing local sensors. Starships using sensor jammers could conceal their exact location using a sensor jammer, but the downside was that the vessel also broadcast its general location. Sensor jammers were indiscriminate and fouled the sensors of friends and foes alike.[1]
This could effectively cause a ship to go unnoticed by any possible observers, and also to prevent an attacker from gaining a weapons lock on the ship.
The size and power behind a sensor jammer determined the strength of the jamming signal and the affected area. For example, the A-wing's 4X-Phantom short-range sensor jammer could jam the sensors and communications of other starfighters, but the sensors carried by larger capital ships would be able to burn through the jamming signal. An Imperial-class Star Destroyer meanwhile could broadcast a jamming signal powerful enough to block out all scanner and communication channels system-wide, forcing their opponents to rely on visual sensors and hand-held communicators.[source?]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Onslaught
- Star Wars Adventures 1: Hunt the Sun Runner (Game Book)
- The Clone Wars: The Enemy Within (Mentioned only) (as jamming device)
- Boba Fett: A New Threat
- Han Solo at Stars' End (First appearance)
- Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization
- Star Wars radio drama — "Force and Counterforce"
- The Farlander Papers (Mentioned only) (as sensor-jamming array)
"Perlemian Haul" — Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook- "A Brief Visit to Rodia" — Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
- Heir to the Empire
- "No Disintegrations, Please" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 14 (as sensor-jamming array)
Non-canon appearances[]
- Ace Assault on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
