Russia’s electronic warfare tactics are helping it turn the tide against Ukraine

Telegraph ^ | 12/27/2023 | Joe Barnes

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At first, Ukraine noticed its GPS-guided 155mm Excalibur artillery shells suddenly started veering off target.

Then rockets fired with Himars, which Kyiv once boasted had “scalpel-like” accuracy, began missing their targets. In some areas, they almost always missed.

The same happened to JDAM guided bombs supplied to Ukraine’s air force by the United States. Frantic investigation eventually discovered they had all fallen victim to a new threat – Russian jamming.

Moscow has quietly developed a knack for taking out some of Ukraine’s most prized missiles and rockets. It is a rare but crucial example of Russian technological advantage in a war that has been slowly tipping in Moscow’s favour.

Along almost the entirety of the front lines, an invisible wall of electromagnetic pulses now stretches like a shield.

An elaborate network of radio, infrared and radar signals hurled into the skies over the battlefield provides Russian forces with unprecedented protections in some areas.

‘Their electronic warfare is better than ours’ And it’s not just Ukrainian missiles that are now failing to reach their targets. Perhaps more significant is Russia’s ability to counter the array of cheap, sometimes off-the-shelf, drones upon which Ukraine has become reliant for reconnaissance and long-range strikes.

Ukrainians know they are now at a disadvantage.

One front-line soldier, whose 120mm mortar unit regularly uses Chinese-made Mavic drones to spot targets, told The Telegraph: “They’ve always had good electronic warfare since the start of the full-scale invasion. But now it is better than us.”

Another person with knowledge of the front lines said: “It’s getting pretty intensive but nothing high-tech, just the same Russian stuff – power in quantity not quality.”

“It remains a major problem along the front,” Andrey Liscovich, of the Ukraine Defence Fund, recently told the Geopolitics Decanted podcast.

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Another aspect not discussed in nearly any media analysis is western/US intelligence assistance to the ukes for targeting, or the effectiveness of Russian countermeasures against uke drones/cruise missiles.

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the way I hear of missle successes in crimea is that the ukes divert rus attention with one set of missles and then hit them from another angle so they can’t react.

so the rus do have adequate anti missle technology. but it can be overwhelmed, incapacitated, or diverted. that’s what it looks like happens with the successful crimea attacks.

but the ukes lately have stripped the rus of air cover for their front line troops. I think that’s biggest story.

Once the ukes take out the jammers—then they have free range for the drones over head while uke troops move forward below.

heck they might even be able to put a pontoon bridge over the dneiper.

[lonestar67]

You are a foolish reactionary.

You have conceded that you love Al gore and John Kerry.

You apparently also oppose Trump.
That’s a shame.

[NorseViking]

Do you have a slightest understanding of how air defenses work? What do you think is going to happen if someone strikes the US fleet in Hawaii with cruise missiles? The Russian defenses at least intercept 9 out of 10 attacks.

[blitz128]

Not sure your point , based on Ukrainian results against much greater in number air defense assets , Ukrainians have had pretty good success.

Considering the attacks on US naval ships and 100% intercept rate, limited western air defense assets in Ukraine, with short response time pretty good intercept rate, and much longer reaction time pearl would have.

Would say attack on pearl would not be successful

But if your point is Russian air defense doing well, sure/s

[blitz128]

“ fetish moron” lol
Conflating all those accusations together is stronk argument

[NorseViking]

Where the idea of 100% intercept rate comes from?

[blitz128]

The “idea of 100% intercept” comes from navy shooting down 100% of missles it engaged in Red Sea

[NorseViking]

Do you understand the difference in both quality and quantity of the missiles in both cases? Also 100% interception is a BS because the ships get hit.

[lonestar67]

You are not very good at argumentation.

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[lonestar67]

Vindman is a jacobin leftist radical.

He was trying to undermine Trump’s hardline against Russia.

That is not difficult to understand. Vindman did not want Trump to expose Hunter Biden’s son to prosecution in Ukraine which was what Trump was asking Ukraine about in the phone call for which he was impeached.