Electronic Warfare Is Expanding
The US military has been enhancing capabilities in the electronic warfare field. A suite of electronic warfare capabilities developed to specifically counter Russian advances in Europe will now be fielded to an Army unit within the United States.
The unit is the first stateside unit to receive EW prototypes as a means of creating soldier familiarity with the systems prior to deployment overseas, as well as creating a greater EW knowledge base within the community.
The capabilities, according to an Army release, include mounted, dismounted and command-and-control systems for electronic sensing and jamming.
These capabilities, delivered in large part by the service’s Rapid Capabilities Office, have been with units in Europe for some time, having been developed under operational needs statements in response to capability caps against Russian systems, according to c4isrnet.com.
Designed to close gaps in the short term, they include the VROD, which surveys the field from an electro-magnetic perspective; VMAX, which provides a limited electronic attack capability; and an additional capability to the electro-magnetic spectrum command-and-control tool called EW Planning and Management Tool.
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