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In The Rise of Skywalker, there's a point where Resistance fighters are performing an assault along the surface of a Star Destroyer, and Admiral Pryde reacts by telling a crew member to "jam the speeders". The crew member states that the Resistance members aren't using speeders, and it's revealed that they're riding horse-like animals for their assault.

Is there any explanation of what "jam the speeders" actually means, or what it would achieve, in any other Star Wars media (Legends or canon)? Particularly, is there any example of it being used successfully at any point?

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  • Closest I've found is that the new First Order Speederbike toys (https://www.marianos.com/p/hasbro-star-wars-galaxy-of-adventures-first-order-driver-and-treadspeeder-toy/0063050986765) claim that they're built in a way that prevents traditional methods of jamming speederbikes. – FuzzyBoots Apr 02 '20 at 17:30
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    Sadly, this seems to be nothing more than a very poor attempt at lip service to explain why the resistance is using animals in their attack. – Harabeck Apr 02 '20 at 17:36
  • Did somebody say "jammed"? – Valorum Apr 02 '20 at 19:35

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In Return of the Jedi, Luke tells Leia to

Jam their comlink. Center switch!

Return of the Jedi script

while Luke and Leia are chasing scout troopers on speeder bikes in order to prevent the scout troopers from sending a radio message that rebels are on the forest moon of Endor. This is a form of radio jamming.

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