It's an area where Russia was thought to have a clear advantage going into the war.
It's an area where Russia was thought to have a clear advantage going into the war. Yet, for reasons not entirely clear, its much-touted electronic warfare prowess was barely seen in the war's early stages in the chaotic failure to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Ukraine has scored some successes in countering Russia's electronic warfare efforts. It has captured important pieces of hardware -- a significant intelligence coup -- and destroyed at least two multi-vehicle mobile electronic warfare units. "Operating on a modern battlefield without data is really hard," said retired Col. Laurie Buckhout, a former U.S. Army electronic warfare chief. Jamming "can blind and deafen an aircraft very quickly and very dangerously, especially if you lose GPS and radar and you're a jet flying at 600 miles an hour."Ukraine learned hard lessons about electronic warfare in 2014 and 2015, when Russia overwhelmed its forces with it.
Russia has engaged in GPS jamming in areas from Finland to the Black Sea, said Lt. Col. Tyson Wetzel, an Air Force fellow at the Atlantic Council. One regional Finnish carrier, Transaviabaltica, had to cancel flights on one route for a week as a result. Russian jamming has also disrupted Ukrainian television broadcasting, said Frank Backes, an executive with
The communications problems were evident with many Russian troops talking on insecure open radio channels, easily monitored by outsiders.
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