In this From the JED Archives post, John Haystead explores traveling wave tubes and tube vs. solid-state competition in 2018.
As it continues to modernize key electronic warfare (EW) capabilities across its surface fleet, the US Navy will later this year see its next-generation shipborne electronic attack (EA) system go to sea for the first time.
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is the organization whose mission it is to “deliver these integrated air warfare capabilities to enable the fleet to compete, deter and win – tonight, tomorrow and in the future.”
Since pretty much the beginning of the electronics revolution, all the military Services have struggled mightily to keep up with the pace of technology advancement and a constantly evolving enemy threat.
Not too long ago, some very enterprising people asked themselves a question: If almost anyone can access spacecraft-delivered, high-quality images, and accurate geolocation of most places on Earth for a fee, why not add RF signals to the mix? The answer, as it turns out, is that this is not just an interesting idea but a potentially lucrative market.
Space is without question a critical operational domain for US military forces and one in which superior military capabilities and operational dominance must be assured.
Electronic warfare (EW) – as both a science and a military art – has been an ever-present consideration for the NATO alliance in the 72 years since its establishment.
In the soon-to-come October 2023 issue of JED, editor John Knowles references this JED archives story from September 2010 by then Lt. Col. Jeffrey H. Fischer.
In this JED archives story from July 2020, Richard Scott discusses the long-term evolution of Eurofighters.
In this article, David C. Stoudt, Ph.D., discusses directed energy in the DE101 column of the April 2020 issue of JED. At the time, directed energy was a fairly new weapon. JEDonline will continue to release primer articles about this relatively new form of weaponry in the coming weeks.