EW, Drones and Jamming

[Colin Parkinson]

@Kirkhill This is for you

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030009658916720858

 

[FJAG]

There should have been someone from DLR and PWGSC there with a contract and a checkbook.

 

[Kirkhill]

Northrop Grumman bumping up its EW and Space Warfare divisions.

Northrop Grumman boosts defense production in Illinois

Northrop Grumman says its Rolling Meadows facility in Illinois plays a central role in advancing electronic warfare, survivability systems and space technologies.

defence-industry.eu

 

[Kirkhill]

Paratroopers fight on the electromagnetic spectrum | The British Army

To survive on the modern battlefield, paratroopers are adapting to fight the unseen battle on the radio waves.

www.army.mod.uk

Brit Paras getting in on the game now

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Phantom Platoon provides a unique Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) capability for 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army’s global response force.

CEMA brings together electronic warfare, cyber operations, and spectrum management. The goal is to gather information about the enemy, disrupt their plans, and keep friendly forces safe.
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A key task for the CEMA specialists was to find enemy positions by tracking their radio transmissions. The soldiers used Kraken, a software defined radio they have put together themselves.

“It’s an aerial to detect signals that links to a GPS, and is run through a single-board computer,” Private Kai said. “It takes five minutes to set up or take down, and we can position it on the battlefield and connect remotely from anywhere.

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Other devices the paratroopers have produced are the Unagi, a transmitter that can jam radio signals or send out fake ones; and the Plankton, a Wi-Fi extender used to cut the signal between a drone and its controller.

Private George said: “One of our team has a degree in marine biology, so everything we do has some kind of fishy name! We make our kit with components bought at an electronics shop and, with a quick bit of coding, we can reprogramme a device to deliver a different effect.

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“We were using Unagi to jam radios, and then we reconfigured it to mimic a Wi-Fi hub. The enemy picked up that signal and thought they had located our headquarters, so they attacked that fake position. Deceiving the enemy meant one of our rifle companies seized their objective without any opposition.”