Given that the UFOs of the TV show are armed with laser weapons and capable of interstellar travel at superluminal speed, I suspect that mere electronic countermeasures are a little passé to their occupants.
On the other hand they are routinely fought off by Earth-based organization with "future past" technology, so they apparently aren't well-equipped.
These days, Seaslug would be blissfully immune because there's no software to hack.
That's an idea that comes up occasionally... the trouble with having no software is that once the other side figures an exploit, it takes a hardware change to deploy countermeasures.These days, Seaslug would be blissfully immune because there's no software to hack.
Well, if provided with jam-resistant tracking system for Type 901 radar - for example, FLIR - it would likely be pretty tough to jamming even nowadays. The beam-riding systems are inheritedly hard to jam, after all.
That being said, Johns Hopkins APL's technical digest history of Talos made it clear that the idea was to make Talos immune to countermeasures deployed by the enemy even if they possessed the plans to the missile. And that by and large, this was satisfactorily achieved.
