Capabilites and Effects
EW is Conducted for?
To secure and maintain freedom of action in the Electromagnetic Operational Environment (EMOE) for friendly forces to deny the same to the adversary.
What is EA?
Use of electromagnetic energy, directed energy, or anti-radiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability and is considered a form of fires.
What is Electronic Protection? (or EP)
Unlike the offensive "EA," this division of EW focuses on preserving the use of the spectrum for friendly forces.
What is Electronic Support?
ES are actions tasked by, or under direct control of, an operational commander to search for, intercept, identify, and locate or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, targeting, planning, and conduct of future operations
What are the three divisons of EW?
Electronic Attack
-Electronic Protection
- Electronic Warfare Support
What type of systems can EW be applied to?
Can be applied from all physical domains by manned and unmanned systems.
What is EMP?
Short for "Electromagnetic Pulse," this can be used as a primary destructive mechanism to fry electronic circuits over a wide area.
What is Emission Control?
This type of control (abbreviated EMCON) is used to hide a unit's location by limiting its electromagnetic signatures.
What is SIGINT? (Signals Intelligence)
Data collected by ES can be used to produce this broader "intelligence" category, which includes both COMINT and ELINT.
What Directed Energy (DE) weapon primarily used for?
A means to incapacitate, damage, disable, or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and/or personnel.
How does EW affect adversary's operationally?
Operationally, EW affects the adversary’s ability to mass and synchronize forces.
What is EA defending?
Defensive EA activities use the EMS to protect personnel, facilities, capabilities and equipment.
What are intentional and unintentional signals?
EP is designed to mitigate the impact of these two types of signals: those from the enemy and those from friendly forces.
What is Immediate Threat Recognition?
Unlike long-term intelligence gathering, ES is performed for this "instant" purpose regarding incoming missiles or radars.
What are Wartime Reserve Modes?
These "emergency only" settings, abbreviated WARMs, are kept secret until actual conflict to prevent enemies from developing counters.
How does EW affect adversary's strategically?
Strategically, EW prevents the adversary’s senior leadership from maintaining a coherent picture of the national security environment.
What are some examples for EA Defense?
Self-protection and force protection measures such as use of expendables (e.g., flares and active decoys), protection jammers and lasers, towed decoys, and DE IR countermeasures systems.
What is Frequency Agility?
This radio feature allows a system to quickly change channels to avoid being jammed by an adversary.
What are Uncertainties?
ES is used to reduce these "unknowns" concerning the enemy, environment, time, and terrain.
What is an Emitter?
This is the specific term for the "address" or source of EM energy that ES works to intercept and identify.
How does EW affect adversary's tactically?
Tactically, EW affects cueing of engagement systems.
What is at the onset of engagement?
This is the specific timing when offensive EA activities are typically initiated to support friendly forces.
What is EMI? (Electromagnetic Interference)
While defensive EA stops lethal attacks, EP is specifically designed to protect friendly systems from this "accidental" interference.
What are Intentional and Unintentional radiations?
ES looks for these two types of radiated energy: one meant to be sent and one that escapes accidentally.
What is CDR Nepo's favorite color?
Navy Blue