Posted on 01/23/2010 9:07:49 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Attack, not defense, will reshape electronic warfare. A magazine filled with electron pulses, information scrambling data streams and invasive algorithms may arm the Next-Generation Jammer (NGJ).
By 2018, variants of the U.S. Navy’s NGJ likely will be carried by a half-dozen manned and unmanned aircraft—perhaps more.
The service’s EP-X signals and communications intelligence aircraft—still without a final design or completed requirements—will be replacing the long-serving EP-3E.
“EP-X is going to be the eyes and ears that find the signals” that NGJ will jam and manipulate, says Christopher Carlson, director of U.S. business development for ITT’s integrated EW systems. “Precisely identifying and locating the signals is key to making [jamming] work.
The Navy’s EA-18G Growler is the lead platform for NGJ. Some variant of the Marine Corps F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is expected to be the second. The Air Force’s F-35A may be third, although the technology could quickly shift into larger, faster unmanned aircraft designs.
“An electronic attack version of the JSF has been planned since Day One by both the Marine Corps and the Air Force,” says a senior Air Force official. Lockheed Martin officials say there is no plan to use a power-pulloff shaft from the main engine to provide auxiliary power to an electronic attack system. However, “there are solutions to the electrical power challenge,” the Air Force official says, that do not involve ram-air turbines.
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Countermeasures is nothing new.
The problem with active jamming is that everyone can see YOU.
as usual Aviation Week lives up to its reputation as Aviation Leak!!
They are good when it comes to aviation news. Janes is the best
That explains all of the Prowler losses, zero, to hostile fire.
What ever.
You light up the atmosphere with 500kw and people will see you.
You best use it briefly.
Its just like using concealed carry, you uncover and you reveal yourself.
You better have a sharp aim, because you have just made yourself a target.
The unofficial motto of the Wild Weasel crews is YGBSM: “You Gotta Be Shittin’ Me”. This appears prominently on the logo patch of some squadrons. As the story goes, this was the response of Jack Donovan, a former B-52 EWO (Electronic Warfare Officer):
This was the natural response of an educated man, a veteran EWO on B-52s and the like, upon learning that he was to fly back seat to a self-absorbed fighter pilot while acting as flypaper for enemy SAMs.[5][6]
Israel blew away Syria recently with active ECW. If you think that stuff is a joke, wow.. This stuff can reprogram enemy systems (russian) at will.
I dont think its a joke.
I think it comes with perils.
I dont believe the reprogramming BS.
First you need the source code, then you’d have to be able to link to the system and upload in a flash.
Takes me a minute or two to download a song using broadband.
Yer gonna alter the OS in a split second?
That’s the point. In brief, the task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source so that the Weasel or its teammates can precisely target it for destruction.
Hence, the HARM series of anti-radar weapons.
I know. My shop built it.
It was just a tool. It was the tactic that was a success.
No, I don’t think that you get it. The point of the Wild Weasel is for the enemy to see them.
I know that.
That was the tactic.
Please elaborate.
My original post only pointed out that everyone WILL see you.
Wild weasel took that fact and used some crazy bastards to use that as bait, knowing that they could react faster than the enemy.
A calculated risk.
Sigh...
You better be able to destroy who you revealed to before they destroy you.
I think Special Forces on the ground did most of that (basically, turned it off).
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