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Chapter 10: What is Electronic Warfare?
The definition of Electronic Warfare and its three pillars: Electronic Counter Measures, Electronic Protective Measures and Electronic Support Measures.
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10.1Definition
All the preceding chapters described how sensors and weapons use the electromagnetic spectrum. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the military fight over that use itself: denying the spectrum to the opponent, and securing it for your own use.
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EW has three tasks: listening (ESM), jamming or deceiving (ECM) and protecting yourself against interference (EPM). They work as a single cycle: what you hear determines how you jam and how you protect yourself.
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