January 27, 1975

January 27, 1975

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Special Report Electronic Warfare

Jammers Add Effectiveness, Complexity

Special Report Electronic Warfare

U. S. Strives to Cope With Growing Threats

Special Report Electronic Warfare

Planners Seek Effective Visual Defense

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Jammers Add Effectiveness, Complexity

Airborne jamming equipment, designed to confuse and deceive enemy radars, has become much more effective, and complex, since its debut three decades ago in a bomber raid against Bremen. But the 1973 Mideast War demonstrated that the Soviet air defense radar threat is becoming much more difficult to counter.
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U. S. Strives to Cope With Growing Threats

U. S. is broadening a drive to bolster the armed services’ abilities to cope with threats posed by the Soviet Union’s increasing reliance on electronics for guiding, directing and commanding weapons. The experiences of the war in Southeast Asia, the lightning invasion of Czechoslovakia and the recent Middle East war convince defense planners of a simple tenet of electronic warfare: For a nation to survive and persevere in modern conflict, it must counter and exploit the weaknesses of enemy electronic systems.
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Planners Seek Effective Visual Defense

Practical, inexpensive answers to the threat of visually aimed weapons are eluding defense planners, despite an extensive search during the past several years. Defense officials are deeply concerned by the need for effective optical countermeasures to thwart hostile use of the visual as well as the infrared portions of the spectrum for missile guidance, weapons aiming, tracking and night vision devices.
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Export Policies Relaxed on Technology

American and European avionics manufacturers are eyeing what is emerging as a significant international market for electronic warfare equipment among NATO nations and countries throughout the Middle East and Persian Gulf areas. U. S. Defense and State Dept. have relaxed reins on a restrictive export policy covering this technology, thereby handing a number of American companies opportunities to sell abroad that they might not have thought possible only a few years ago.
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DOD Boosts Microwave Device Funding

Defense Dept. will boost research and development funding for microwave tubes and solid-state devices by as much as 20% annually in coming years in a drive to bolster U. S. preeminence in the seminal component technology of electronic warfare.
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Navy Faces Grave Cruise Missile Threat

U. S. Navy is being confounded by the massive deployment of anti-ship cruise missiles aboard ships and aircraft of the Soviet Union and 15 or 16 of its client states and friends. In a few short years these anti-ship weapons have transformed U. S. naval bigship superiority into a crushing defense burden.
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Delivery Gains Speed Expendable Use

Expendable jammers could begin to win the operational acceptance that proponents of these small, “throwaway” devices have vainly sought in recent years as a result of the emergence of a number of attractive unmanned delivery schemes being explored by the military services.
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U. S. Forces Focusing on Survivability

Air Force and Navy are augmenting the electronic warfare protection of tactical aircraft to increase their survivability in the dense radar environment of Eastern Europe. Concurrently, the Navy, faced with a growing burden of tactical and strategic reconnaissance of Soviet missile threats, is beefing up its ability to conduct at-sea aerial surveillance of alien radar and communications activity.
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Anti-Radar Weapon Development Pushed

U. S. is pressing development of standoff weapons that exploit the proliferation of foreign air- and surface-based radars, on which Soviet military forces and those of their client states are becoming increasingly dependent. Ironically, these weapons, or their guidance systems, turn the tables on probing radars by sensing the electromagnetic energy radars emit and using it to destroy them.
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USAF Augments Drone EW Capabilities

Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.—Electronic warfare capability of Tactical Air Command’s only drone or remotely piloted vehicle squadron will be augmented substantially later this year with the introduction of the AQM-34V electronic countermeasures (ECM) drone.
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