The Unseen battle
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The war in Ukraine is being fought as vigorously in the electromagnetic spectrum as it is in the physical land, air and sea domains.
BY THOMAS WITHINGTON
In early October, Ukrainian news sources revealed that Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) pilots from the country’s military had destroyed a Russian Army R-330Zh Zhitel jamming system. Russian land forces have R-330Zh systems deployed at the tactical level with their Electronic Warfare (EW) companies. Each of the Russian Army’s tactical manoeuvre formations, notably its motorised rifle and tank brigades and divisions, has organic EW companies. Larger EW brigades are deployed at the operational level to provide theatre-wide EW for Russian land forces. The country’s land forces include Russia’s army alongside her airborne forces and naval infantry. Electronic warfare is integral to Russian land forces doctrine which places a premium on using jamming to degrade hostile Command and Control (C2) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. By degrading hostile C2 and ISR Russian military thinking predicts that an enemy will lose its ability to locate and engage targets, and to manage the battle. An aphorism of Russian military thinking says that the kinetic attrition of one third of an opposing force, coupled with the electronic attrition of another third will cause the remaining third to collapse.
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