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Better late than never. After the Cold War, the Army largely gave up much of its EW capabilities, especially jamming. With the focus switched to fighting damn-near Stone Age insurgents from large techno-enemies, you can kind of understand – but in usual short-sighted style, we threw the baby out with the bathwater and now have little capability. Hopefully an upcoming system\u00a0 from Lockheed will restore some of that lost art.<\/p>\n
The first is the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air Large system, which is a jamming pod initially designed to be mounted on an MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone. However, the Army is shifting its requirement to make the pod system-agnostic.<\/p>\n
The second capability in the works is the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team, an integrated cyber, EW and signals intelligence system that will be mounted to a Stryker vehicle.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Lockheed \u2014 along with General Dynamics Mission Systems \u2014 was awarded a contract to develop a prototype and conceptual design for a third key electronic warfare system for the Army, the TLS-Echelons Above Brigade. This system is meant to provide larger echelons with deep sensing abilities across much longer distances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They say future facets of the project will include ‘dismounted’ options… we had dismounted intercept options which not only intercepted but direction-found (DF) signals across the tactical spectrum several decades ago, small enough to almost fit in an American Tourister.\u00a0 Jamming – not so much. But our capabilities used to be better and more ubiquitous – ASA\/MI units were assigned even to regiment-sized units, which would not only intercept the enemy, but spoof or jam them as well.\u00a0 Seeing a map of the FEBA\u00a0 with a big bight in it due to one of your jammers screwing up opposing comms really\u00a0 makes for a great feeling, eh?<\/p>\n
Nice to see that someone is figuring out that IN-DEPTH intel is needed. Not just in the air, not just in space (although the Air Force has argued that the air-carried or satellite units can do anything – trust us) but having eyes and ears on the ground helps build a complete picture of the bad guys, and no single source is foolproof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"