What is electronic warfare?
Electronic warfare uses focused energy, usually radio waves or laser light, to confuse or disable an enemy’s electronics. It can also be about listening – collecting radio signals from an enemy or capturing the radar of an incoming missile.
United States electronic warfare is becoming increasingly important as nations like Russia begin to develop larger digital and electronic capabilities that could pose a challenge to the U.S. Armed Forces in the future. “The physics of the future battle platforms are unlikely to change significantly,” said Deptula. “But how these systems in future battle networks needs to change to realize the full potential of this computerized warfare.”
Army Threat Systems Administration Office Demonstrates Electronic Warfare 4G jammer Technology
The Army Threat Systems Administration Office, or TSMO, team visits the National Training Center, Dec. 2, to demonstrate electronic GPS interference technologies recently developed at their Redstone Arsenal office in Alabama.
TSMO electronics technician Curtis Leslie said the team was here to simulate the National Training Center’s senior leaders, such as the small letter, Direct Injection Jammers, which can be programmed on a cue to jam the radio signals used for electronic detection and communication during battle training scenarios , “We can install them in tactical vehicles – Humvees, 5-ton trucks,” said Leslie. “Our injection jammers can be used instead of outdoor jammers.”
The jammer box is installed between the antennas and a radio transceiver. It can be programmed to digitally produce different types of noise when cued by a simple line-of-sight signal sent away by an observer-controller-trainer.
Leslie said that a typical signal jammer broadcaster broadcasting live via “public” air waves require military, federal communications, or federal aviation approvals that often limit jamming late at night and early morning hours. He said that during injection a jamming concept is not new, recent advances in technology have allowed jammers to become smaller and use less power, making them ideal for use at military training centers wherever there is scope for heavily congested environments the wireless spectrum can be problematic. The demonstration at the National Training Center is part of the Army Space Training Strategy to offer advanced technologies developed by TSMO for the Warfighter Training Community.