When Drones fall out of the Sky... Electronic Warfare 101

День тому

We here a lot of drones, but very little about how drones can be attacked with, particularly with non-kinetic weapons, like electronic warfare equipment. To cover this, I talked with Thomas Withington an expert in Electronic Warfare (EW). We look at the basic definition of Eletronic Warfare, how it relates to Cyber Warfare, what are the differences between Russian & Chinese approaches in contrast to "the West", how it relates to Psy Ops, specifically Maskirovka and also if an EMP would be considered EW or not.
Follow him on twitter: / tomwithington
More information about EW here:
www.armadainternational.com/c...
www.thedefencehorizon.org/pos...
Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
»» GET OUR BOOKS ««
» Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - stukabook.com
» The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - sturmzug.com
» Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - www.hdv470-7.com
» Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - panzerkonferenz.de
»» SUPPORT MHV ««
» patreon, see videos early (adfree) - / mhv
» subscribe star - www.subscribestar.com/mhv
» paypal donation - paypal.me/mhvis
»» MERCHANDISE ««
» teespring - teespring.com/stores/military...
» SOURCES «
www.armadainternational.com/c...
www.thedefencehorizon.org/pos...
/ tomwithington
00:00 Intro
00:41 What is Electronic Warfare?
02:28 What about Radar & Cyber?
6:39 Russian & Chinese Approaches? What about Psy Ops?
08:52 Maskirovka vs Western Way of Deception
14:45 EW Organization Units?
20:04 Is an EMP EW or not?
#electronicwarfare #ew #russianarmedforces

КОМЕНТАРІ: 113

@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized Рік тому

For more information check these links: www.armadainternational.com/category/categories/technology/electronic-warfare/ew-in-depth-articles/ www.thedefencehorizon.org/post/electromagnetic-manoeuvre twitter.com/tomwithington

@MonkeyJedi99 Рік тому

If you can feel the radio spectrum, you're standing WAY too close to a high-power transmitter.

@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized Рік тому

That isn’t the spectrum that is the cancer growing inside you 🤪

@tommihommi1 Рік тому

no cancer, you're just getting heated up a bit.

@grizwoldphantasia5005 Рік тому

Or it's a nice sunny day at the beach.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Рік тому

That's how they discovered microwave ovens! It was an extraordinarily dangerous accident.

@crabmansteve6844 Рік тому

THIS. Lmao As a telecomm guy, if you can physically feel the radio, you're getting cooked a little. No cancer though, just heat.

@daviddunkelheit9952 Рік тому

When I was in the US Army I was in an OpFor unit (Red Team) and there was an engagement against “Task Force XXI” a collection of Blue Force units that used advanced technology. They were networked with their radios frequency hopping, encrypted and burst transmission. We used RF direction finders to triangulate their command post and attack them forcing them to displace. They were betrayed by their own communications system. We couldn’t eavesdrop but we could find them as there was nothing else around. We didn’t use jamming units and we actually would do minimal communication after crossing the Line of Departure. Everything was done by SOPs and Frag Orders.

@mattosborne2935 Рік тому

Electromagnetic spectrum operations (EMSO) is the defining technology of combined arms warfare. Historiography begins with Guglielmo Marconi developing his sets in conjuction with Royal Navy Adm. Henry Jackson. Your question about EMP needs a follow-up about high power microwave (HPM) weapons now in production. Thanks for bringing Tom on your podcast, he's one of my favorite Old Crows.

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

HPM on aircraft or drones can cause havoc with ground-based computer systems.

@coachmatt216 2 місяці тому

It actually started with Nicola Tesla…the genius who was born 200 years too early.

@ukaszzyka6279 Рік тому

This is quite interesting point about the western vs eastern perception of maskirovka. I work in the highly multinational company, but in principal USA/UK based, and it is very often very amusing and dissapointing in the same time for us, Poles, to see how our British and American colleagues do not understand this subtle game of hiding facts behind other facts, half - truths and such 😅 Often we try to see the second bottom of their actions, but obviously there is none, they just don't understand the concept of saying one thing and meaning the other, which is totally basic social skill in the eastern part of the Europe.

@sumotony Рік тому

Perun YT channel has a whole slideshow (1hour talk, but he is the power point guy) about Russian mistruths endemic to the Russian way of war. Anyway thanks to Military History not Vizualised for having another subject matter expert present to us.

@anirecapped. Рік тому

Yeah, we're just too blunt.

@20chocsaday Рік тому

Problem here, my phone won't let me say what happens.

@Ensign_Nemo Рік тому

The problem with a society where it is standard operating practice to use deception everywhere other than your own family is that nobody really knows what is actually happening outside of the range of their own eyes and ears. The entire Russian campaign seems to a victim of this sort of internal habitual maskirovka, where Putin thought that most Ukrainians would welcome his troops, and that any armed resistance would be easily defeated in a few days. Anybody who told him otherwise risked their career, so the true situation was unknown until after the invasion. There's lots of deception in Western politics, which is why governments are so keenly interested in controlling the Internet by proxy, via threats to arrest leaders of corporations that don't censor their critics.

@martinschneider7130 Рік тому

@@20chocsadayChinese Phone with integrated censor?

@worldtraveler930 Рік тому

Looking at the room your guest speaker is in I see a banjo and I'm reminded of a statement that someone once made that everything's chill and it's fun and games until Steve Martin breaks out the banjo!!! 🤠👍

@T.efpunkt Рік тому

Thank you! Super interesting and relevant topic! Would love to see a deeper dive into the means and practical application of EW on the visualized chanel

@CB-vt3mx Рік тому

EW is about the systems and emitters...Cyber is about the information on those signals and systems

@EchoCharlie1361 11 місяців тому

I can respect a man that has a barbell in the background AND knows what he's talking about.

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

With the advent of tactical drones, there will be tactical EW. In some ways this has always existed in the Air Domain - aircraft have had radar and counter-measures since sometime in WWII. Now that use of the Air Domain has become common at tactical levels, there will be EW at those levels. To a lesser extent EW will be used at tactical levels for Land Domain purposes. A decade or more ago, a small military unit existed to test Land Domain and, to a lesser extent, Air Domain, military-grade equipment use in the EM spectrum using commercial-grade equipment. One interesting result was the discovery that it is not necessary to crack spread-spectrum, encrypted radio systems to achieve an effect. The small team were able to identify and precisely locate the latest secure radio systems used by special operators. They literally could point to three operators behind a wall, something that would allow precise kinetic attack.

@rudymata 8 місяців тому

Thank you for the great informations very well educated

@coventryboy68 Рік тому

Why are you asking questions from a Bond villan? Also, where is his white cat?

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

But he has a banjo for dueling.

@sonicgoo1121 Рік тому

I see the audible spectrum is involved in warfare as well. There's a banjo back there!

@Skipping2HellPHX Рік тому

21:00 While I will agree that it will not cause DIRECT physical damage the fact is that all national electric grids are unsheilded and many of the large transmission transformers will catch fire causing massive physical damage.

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

Many attacks against C2 systems take advantage of the protocol infrastructure that enables mesh networks and distributed communication. Mesh networks, particularly with moving nodes (e.g. AFVs or individual soldier) have to constantly update the paths to each other and upper levels of command. It's nearly impossible to perform those updates with encrypted communication, so an adversary monitoring the networks can insert false updates that cause the network to fail, either because packets are routed incorrectly or because the update process consumes all of the bandwidth of the radios. The canonical example of this is sending WiFi nodes a disconnect message purportedly from the AP.

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

Maskirovka is attainable through cyber means. I developed a scenario and was the red team for a tabletop exercise in which a Navy Expeditionary Force commander surprised us by deciding to abandon the mission when he deemed his classified information networks could not be trusted. The information failures were achieved through relatively simple cyber means.

@goetzliedtke Рік тому

There is an entire area of EW that this video failed to cover - navigation warfare. Navigation systems such as GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo. These are global systems, in addition there are regional satellite navigation systems owned by Japan (QZSS) and India (IRNSS). All of these allow precise Position, Navigation, and Timing which are quite necessary for missiles, conventional artillery, C2, drones, and critical infrastructure. Two types of attacks are spoofing drones to cause them to crash or discontinue their missions and affecting the timing of critical infrastructure control systems. The latter may not seem like warfare, but modern warfare is dependent on electricity and the electric infrastructure is dependent on precise timing.

@drmarkintexas-400 Рік тому

🏆🙏🇺🇲🤗 Thank you for sharing

@marinesciencedude Рік тому

Are there any points to be made about non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons recently?

@michaelanderson3096 9 місяців тому

Wood slat armour barriers are effective aganist ariel projectiles 😮

@imflikyt Рік тому

This guy agrees with what we're saying

@whya2ndaccount Рік тому

A dedicated EMP would definitely be an example of Electronic Attack (EA).

@banditodorito4091 7 місяців тому

That's why I'm skeptical about an fully unmanned solution

@jprehberger Рік тому

Irrespective of the country, I suspect EW would be a GREAT career path for young military officers.

@ew3612 Рік тому

The high altitude detonation will produce an EM pulse to destroy electronics and hamper communications. However I believe that would be classified as nuclear/strategic warfare because of the agreed response of nuclear nations. Any nation attacked in this way would perceive it as a nuclear war and respond accordingly. Also I dont know how a countries “decision makers” got muddled up with the word “moral” without a negative qualifier. Thank you for the video! I found it very interesting!

@herptek Рік тому

Whatever is classified as a nuclear attack depends on what one hopes to achieve in response by condemning it as such. Definitely anything such would be considered escalatory as long as there is any will on the opposing side left.

@foolwise4703 11 місяців тому

So if I write a letter - does that also count as using the em spectrum because my pen interacts with the paper thought electromagnetic field interactions? 😅 My point being - the definition is arbitrarily broad.

@VictorianTimeTraveler 11 місяців тому

I was practicing drone piloting yesterday and I lost signal so it crashed and I had to comb the desert looking for it.

@johanmetreus1268 Рік тому

Point of interest here, the word "electromagnetic spectrum" keeps being tossed around a lot, but what part(s) of EW takes place OUTside the radio frequencies?

@iron_talon Рік тому

Thermal and infrared masking and detection could be considered to fall under the EW spectrum. Indeed responsibility for managing Thermal mitigation measures on military vehicles, ships and airplanes would typically be handled by EW personnel for example.

@Vexas345 Місяць тому

You could do things like shine lasers into cameras and stuff, to either temporarily blind them or permanently damage sensors. It's possible we will see that more and more against drones to deny them using cameras to target positions.

@Chiller01 Рік тому

So one doesn’t usually associate a 5-string banjo and what looks like a resonator guitar with a British accent.

@sumotony Рік тому

Also that nice gym equipment to the right.

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 Рік тому

North West of England here, the wife's banjo is in the back bedroom.

@Chiller01 Рік тому

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 Well I of course associate those instruments with American roots or bluegrass music. But those genres derived from the music of the hill country immigrants from Northern England, Scotland and Ireland.

@jannarkiewicz633 Рік тому

I am afraid of banjos. Good episode except the banjo.

@dukenukem8381 Рік тому

I am on autism spectrum.

@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Рік тому

Hi on autism spectrum. I am ???¿¿¿ :D

@dukenukem8381 Рік тому

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Chica chica Hakuna matata

@theromanorder Рік тому

Can u do a video on western combate in ww1 And maybe some on combate in Asia and the Pacific in ww1 and 2...

@michaelanderson9140 11 місяців тому

do you even lift bro

@dukenukem8381 Рік тому

To understand maskirovka mindset is quite easy. West operates on - truth = competence= progress = prosperity. And liying = incompetence = loss of money = despair = unacceptable. Russia operates on -Scary lies= Fear= power= money= prosperity for top 1%. You might ask - But lying = incompetence? Why they dont just collapse? Because you cant fail when you have endless scared thru "maskirovka" europeans who pay oil money and are afraid of escalation and pay even more for oil because of it. Just lie more and get more money to complete the circuit. So basically your lie is just an instrument and trick is that you decouple yourself from any morality and dont invest into your lie in order to jump from lie to lie. Once you invest into your lie and start living in a system where truth matters you lost this game of "Maskirovka" To simplify - construct a system where lying is beneficial. And create lying money printing feedback loops. While others struggle to compete with you in systems where truth and competence matters. Because your money and "truth money" are the same money.

@6XCcustom 9 місяців тому

the russians must have better EW systems than the usa/west if so, how much further ahead is the russian than the usa/west whether the information available online is correct so it's not just drones that Russia interferes with Ukraine has big problems with Storm Shadow missiles that cost millions of dollars Russia also manages to disrupt these, so they basically fall down before they reach the target, this also applies to GMLRS missiles, etc. is the usa/west so far behind the russians when it comes to EW warfare one might think that such complex and advanced systems as Storm Shadow should be immune to Russian EW systems, but this is clearly not the case if then Storm Shadow makes it to the target, then the next problem comes and that is that the Russians manage to shoot down most of them before they reach the target with their s400 system here the usa/west has a big problem to solve now Storm Shadow should be stealth but not enough for the s400 system more Storm Shadows have been shot down by s400s than those who hit the target if RUSI is to be believed and how many has missed the target due to Russian EW jamming🤔 were the west ignorant of Russian EW capability and ignorant of the s400 system's capabilities when they developed The Storm Shadow system

@yoschiannik8438 7 місяців тому

Sure, stormshadow is just falling out of the sky. That 350 million dollar submarine and irreplacbale landingship just happend to be there by coincedence im sure lmao. Ladys and gentelman this is missinformation, the US most defenatly is not outtechrd by a failed state with a GDP comparbale to New York.

@AncientRylanor69 Рік тому

@tbyte007 Рік тому

"Maskirovka" literally means "Masking". Nothing that special.

@thurbine2411 Рік тому

Still it has some more meaning in the doctrine of Maskirovka than just the literal word

@sodinc Рік тому

@@thurbine2411 there is, of course, such a doctrine (probably a number of them), it just isn't called "maskirovka" in russian. Such use of the word is, i guess, possible as a metaphore or a joke, but not as an official or even semi-official use

@premyslhruza 11 місяців тому

On Maskirovka 'маскировка', this is very elastic term. Its original use and meaning is purely military oriented - camouflage and deception activities, in order to confuse enemy and not reveal whatever needs to be concealed. It can concern hiding both weak or also strong aspects, also pretending to have a capability actually not available. Later on it evolved into broader meaning, outside the military area. What is more important in russian context is actually the concept of telling truth. Which truth and to whom.. In russian language there are several distinct words concerning lying and different ways of lying are regarded as necessary and thus not shameful. The oversimplified version would be, that outside the family and close friends the basic mode tends to be lying, occasionally laced by some portion of truth. Those who live in such a society tend to be natural masters of wide variety of deception.

@thomasgerber1472 Рік тому

I'm a little bit disappointed. Instead of philosophical reasoning I did expect some answers on the vulnerability of the Russian and Ukrainian data-links in the current War and things like jam proof gps or glonass targeting.

@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized Рік тому

Soon.