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Offline NJQA

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Russian EW
« on: December 08, 2019, 1350 UTC »
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Offline Josh

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Re: Russian EW
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2019, 2309 UTC »
They (Russians) make their own RACAL/Watkins Johnson class sdrs for gov/commercial/spooks but for this setup they deploy Icoms. I wonder if it's due they desire to export the units with receivers they are comfortable with rather than exporting spook stuff they keep for themselves?

I doubt it's a cost factor bearing in mind that these things become a huge target in time of open hostilities, with the loss of a cheap radio rather than the cost of a spook rig along with the vehicles and men when the attack comes.
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Re: Russian EW
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2019, 0743 UTC »
According to one of the linked vids, Russian EW, as a whole, is pretty advanced. Even shuts down Aegis systems, apparently.

ETA: Of course, that could just have been Russian propaganda.

Here's a Popular Mechanics article on Russian EW, including a mention of the Murmansk-BN system:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26167/russia-secret-e-weapons/
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