What is electronic warfare in air force?

mesmart2
mesmart2 Posts: 2
edited June 2014 in Electronics
i was just looking at the air force strength of various countries and i came across some countries with jets such as "Electronic warfare" ..are this aircraft used as jammers or such? please elaborate a little
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,420
    edited June 2014
    I could tell you, but then I would have to... well you know.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    edited June 2014
    I could have sworn I read an article somewhere last month, it seems like around the same time when things were heating up between Ukraine and Russia. The story was about a report that a Russian fighter jet that flew over an U.S.N. Aegis war ship and some how knocked out all_ of the ship's electronics, leaving it's computerized weapons defenseless. Anybody else read of this???
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2014
    That capability would've been tough to keep quiet, and all over the evening news. In every civilized country on earth.
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited June 2014
    Jammers have been around since the Wild Weasel F-4 Phantoms would go in before the 105s and jam and destroy the VC radar controlling the SAM sites. Now there are in the navy P-3 Orion sub hunters and recon, P-8 a jet that does the same but more advanced, Hawkeye a smaller version of the AWACS that is carrier launched. Air force still uses the U-2,AWACS, J-Star long range detection and jamming and a Hercules RC-130 the is used for phy ops,jamming and to call in the AC-130 gunships to blow the crap out of what they found. Other countries like England and France and Isreal all use version of U.S. recon,intell, and jammers mentioned. All U.S. fighters have friend or foe id and radars that tell them if they are being "painted" or tracked or when a missle is in the air to go to flares,chaff, evasive manuevers.
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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited June 2014
    No George, that would not be all over the news. Our government would not want to let us or other countries know about the vulnerability. Russians have been hinting about advanced weapons for a while know, and have basically said we have seen them in action, we just thought they were natural disasters/phenomenon. Knocking out the advanced systems in "our" "combat platforms" is very easy to do. Modern electronics do not stand up to EMP blasts, which is why Russians still use tubes in a lot of their military electronics, including those in their jet's electronic controls and other military vehicles.
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