Thursday, February 16, 2012

Electronic warfare applications

Electronic warfare is any aggressive activity involving the use of the EM spectrum to cover directed activity (DE) to ascendancy the EM spectrum or to advance an enemy. This is not bound to radio or alarm frequencies but includes IR, visible, ultraviolet, and added beneath acclimated portions of the EM spectrum. This includes self-protection, standoff, and escort jamming, and antiradiation attacks. EW is a specialized apparatus that enhances abounding air and amplitude functions at assorted levels of conflict.2

The purpose of EW is to abjure the adversary an advantage in the EM spectrum and ensure affable bare admission to the EM spectrum allocation of the advice environment. EW can be activated from air, sea, land, and amplitude by manned and unmanned systems. EW is active to abutment aggressive operations involving assorted levels of detection, denial, deception, disruption, degradation, protection, and destruction.1

EW contributes to the success of advice operations (IO) by application abhorrent and arresting approach and techniques in a array of combinations to shape, disrupt, and accomplishment adversarial use of the EM spectrum while attention affable abandon of activity in that spectrum. Expanding assurance on the EM spectrum increases both the abeyant and the challenges of EW in advice operations. All of the core, supporting, and accompanying advice operations capabilities either anon use EW or alongside account from EW.2

The arch EW activities accept been developed over time to accomplishment the opportunities and vulnerabilities that are inherent in the physics of EM energy. Activities acclimated in EW include: electro-optical, bittersweet and radio abundance countermeasures; EM affinity and deception; EM hardening, interference, intrusion, and jamming; cyberbanking masking, probing, reconnaissance, and intelligence; electronics security; EW reprogramming; discharge control; spectrum management; and wartime assets modes.12

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