of course targeted jamming of recording AND data flow capacity makes sense. You know those UAVs? The drones, who are playing God over every other Pasthun wedding in Afghanistan? It is a simple model plane, with a Hellfire or two rocket attached. But the main point of UAVs is battlefield surveillance. Normal camera, infrared camera, thermocamera, a few kinds of such shit is applied, and, well, some of those Predator beauties are carrying, well, jammers.
Now, every military machine has an enemy. Tanks have the bazooka, airplanes the SAM missiles. So, what to do against UAVs? Shooting them down with atrillery is futile. How to put out the eyes of Predator drone? Do not forget, the drone is controlled by some guy in front of a computer in a military base, so the Predator not just records things, but provides real-time dataflow of battlefield.
USA has UAVs, but Israel, Russia, China, Iran are busily building them, too, and I bet the Israelis were very un-symphatetic to the idea of US drones watching them..
What are the countermeasures?
I just link one article of a thousand on the topic:http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/ar ... 28018.html
The 2003 article says about UAV countermeasures:
If unsuccessful, threat commanders will employ tactical UAVs and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to deny blue force commanders a common operational picture. Moreover, UAV precision munition, electromagnetic pulse, and electronic attacks against command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) will be intended to significantly reduce the blue force's targeting effort, adversely affect blue tempo, and consequently deny the Objective Force the ability to mass the effects of their battlefield functional areas (BFAs).
Countermeasures
In terms of effective current countermeasures against UAVs, there are both passive and active tactics and techniques. UAV countermeasures include employing camouflage, concealment and deception (CCD) techniques; intercepting and destroying the UAV by air-or ground-based fire before it launches or during its flight; destroying the GCS and/or datalink antenna controlling the UAV; jamming the UAV's ground-to-air or air-to-ground datalink signal to its GCS; or intercepting, acquiring, and exploiting the UAV's datalink signal.