Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and loitering munitions are increasingly being used in the suppression/destruction of enemy air defence battle. Air launched anti-radiation missiles with a loitering capability were deployed by the…

Europe’s two next-generation fighter programs are gathering speed. What might their radar, EW, and communications architectures look like? Europe is currently home to three combat aircraft programs – Dassault’s Rafale,…

An analysis of NATO electronic warfare operations over the Balkans It is more than 20 years since NATO did battle in Balkan skies. Operations Deliberate Force and Allied Force witnessed…

The pros and cons of multistatic radars Multistatic radars have unique attributes, but they have been embraced by only a small number of nations and are likely to remain niche…

Active Electronically Scanned Array radars explained Like most great ideas, radar employs an elegantly simple principle. Radio waves are transmitted from an antenna, they collide with an object, properly known…

Artificial intelligence and machine-learning form the foundation of the cognitive techniques set to revolutionise electronic warfare. Since their first use en masse during World War 2, Electronic Warfare (EW) systems…

Sharing electronic warfare tasks could revolutionise combat in the electromagnetic spectrum, but just what is distributed EW and how does it work? The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322BC) made an unwittingly…

First and Last, but Always? For more than half a century the USAF’s Wild Weasel mission has protected aircraft and aircrew from hostile air defences. But will the USAF’s dedicated…

With the recent announcement that BAE Systems will be the integrator of the USAF’s EC-130H Compass Call II electronic warfare capability onto a Gulfstream business jet platform, there are many…