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The simultaneous Ukraine fielding new jammers of Russian FPV drones (below) and new longer ranged, cheap, EW hardened FPV's with a ~30 km range operating in the same electromagnetic battlespace over #Krynky to cover ferry operations is a demonstration of its E.W. mastery.
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https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1721387758810280320
The map (H/T @secretsqrl123) and the quoted post below will give you the idea of the area of effect Ukraines simultaneous deployment of FPV Drone Jammers and new generation longer range & electronic warfare hardened FPV's to interdict RuAF vehicles.
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https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1721511985274105907
What Ukraine did here was what the US manual JP 3-51, Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare, calls "Frequency Deconfliction."**
Ukraine fielded a number of powerful river mobile drone jammers while at the same time deploying slightly larger FPV drones with different radio
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Ukraine fielded a number of powerful river mobile drone jammers while at the same time deploying slightly larger FPV drones with different radio
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...operating frequencies that the jammers don't cover.
Or the AFU are simply opening windows in time and space where their jammers don't affect Ukrainian FPV, or grenade dropping drone, frequencies like shown in the video below.
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Or the AFU are simply opening windows in time and space where their jammers don't affect Ukrainian FPV, or grenade dropping drone, frequencies like shown in the video below.
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1721632360511558075
Ukraine's coordination of it's "Talkers" (jamming community), it's "Listeners" (Signals intercept community), it's combat arms and it's military procurement organizations to deliver what is looking like battle winning performance to cross the Dnipro is something the US
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...Military would be very hard pressed to duplicate.
Particularly given the US Army's complete organizational annihilation of its electronic warfare jamming community, its 'talkers.' in the 2000's.
The lack of 'talkers' with the tools to exercise with for 15 years has
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Particularly given the US Army's complete organizational annihilation of its electronic warfare jamming community, its 'talkers.' in the 2000's.
The lack of 'talkers' with the tools to exercise with for 15 years has
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...left it far, far behind Ukraine of November 2023 in terms of systems level coordination of procurements with electronic deconfliction needs on the battlefield.
Especially since the US Army's Military Intelligence "listeners" hate jamming talkers just for existing, turf🙄⬇️
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Especially since the US Army's Military Intelligence "listeners" hate jamming talkers just for existing, turf🙄⬇️
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...reasons.
Add in decades of a dead ground jamming equipment industrial base, more byzantine than the Byzantine's DoD procurement laws, rules, and regulations, plus yet more interservice turf issues of who exactly owns drones...
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Add in decades of a dead ground jamming equipment industrial base, more byzantine than the Byzantine's DoD procurement laws, rules, and regulations, plus yet more interservice turf issues of who exactly owns drones...
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...there really isn't a chance the US Military can get this right before combat failure, particularly if it involved the leadership of the US Army
Just a cursory evaluation of Ukrainian FPV drone jammer numbers suggest a modern US Army division needs two E.W. battalions
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Just a cursory evaluation of Ukrainian FPV drone jammer numbers suggest a modern US Army division needs two E.W. battalions
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...in order to function on a modern battlefield.
Electronic Warfare for the US Army is set to become the combat engineers of the electromagnetic spectrum.
You can't move on the battlefield without them.
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Electronic Warfare for the US Army is set to become the combat engineers of the electromagnetic spectrum.
You can't move on the battlefield without them.
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1720505378348093622
The interrelation of drones and EW means we will likely see a combined drone/EW branch eating most of the functions of fire support, aviation and intelligence into a new combat arms branch/union.
Attack heloes will be replaced by drones in most scenarios, that much is clear.
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Attack heloes will be replaced by drones in most scenarios, that much is clear.
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Drones have become the main low tactical level level Recce platform.
Attack heloes will need standoff weapons for non-line of sight fire support, and drones to scout ahead and provide over the hill targeting.
Electronic Warfare Officers (EWO) will need to be embedded into
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Attack heloes will need standoff weapons for non-line of sight fire support, and drones to scout ahead and provide over the hill targeting.
Electronic Warfare Officers (EWO) will need to be embedded into
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...every drone, mech, artillery, infantry etc Bde.
Plus technicians to do the maintenance and other EW grunt work.
Exactly how to do this structurally is a good question. 🤔
Embedded and integrated is the likely outcome.
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Plus technicians to do the maintenance and other EW grunt work.
Exactly how to do this structurally is a good question. 🤔
Embedded and integrated is the likely outcome.
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Drones & their required EW force structure is a "disruptive innovation" that will only happen in the US Military over the dead bodies of all the various service pilot unions, plus the US Army's Military Intelligence & Field Artillery branch chiefs.
Only the falls of Poland,
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Only the falls of Poland,
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...France and catastrophic military defeat at Pearl Harbor from Sept. 1939 thru Dec. 1941 got rid of both the Horse Cavalry Generals and the Battleship Admirals.
Only a similar level of failure can unscrew the mess the US Military is in now over drones.
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Only a similar level of failure can unscrew the mess the US Military is in now over drones.
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P.S.
You can download a copy of JP 3-51, Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare at the link below.
irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3…
P.S.
You can download a copy of JP 3-51, Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare at the link below.
irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3…
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