U.S. Congressional testimony: The effectiveness of Ukraine’s Excalibur GPS-guided rounds decreased from 70% to 6% within six weeks as Russia adapted and employed various EW assets to counter them.



by Independent_Lie_9982

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  2. Most westerners, redditors and Fellas included, allowed themselves to forget something between 1993 and 2022.

    The USSR and Russian Federation have always built their anti-NATO doctrines on a list of assumptions:

    1: Russia/USSR cannot compete with NATO technologically, at least not across the board. Therefore;

    2: Russia must compete on producing the highest *practical* level of technology in the greatest possible numbers. If you produce enough 80/20-compliant Stuff, you’re on the right track. To make up that last 20% capability gap;

    3: Major technological investment should go into those areas where economies of scale *combined with* focused production of genuinely top-shelf technology can degrade or eliminate NATO advantages. Hence the Soviet/Russian emphasis on things like ultra-long-range AAMs, electronic warfare, and what are (on paper, at least) unquestionably the most dangerous anti-ship cruise missiles on Earth.

    The idea here is to take away NATO’s technological advantage and force them to fight on Russian terms, in the Russian way. Nobody in NATO has done that kind of stone-axe slogging since Korea, and nobody’s practiced it or even treated it as a realistic possibility since, at the latest, 1993. Russia, meanwhile, kept on keepin’ on, with their collective eye focused on ways to blind and make mute NATO forces.

    Switched-on commentators were worried about this no later than the Murder of Debaltseve. Ukrainian soldiers at the time described Russian artillery (especially the anti-tank smart munitions which utterly gutted the retreat from Debaltseve itself) as murderous beyond description, and their EW capabilities as “eye watering.” The Obama Regime, obsessed with their own correctness and the “Inside every [slur], there is an American trying to get out!” thinking which is so emblematic of the Democrats, simply ignored those reports. It was impossible, so clearly it never happened.

    NATO engineers need to get their heads out of their asses and realise that fighting Russia, or China, is not going to be like invading Iraq. Electronic warfare is sufficiently advanced to largely neutralise the advances in weapons precision made since 1993. Better INS, better astrogation, better terrain-following capability, better encryption…that’s where effort’s needed, and fast. Oh, and to quote Corporal Snafu, fellow South Louisiana boy…

    “…I believe in ammunition.”

  3. This is concerning on a global level. Reasearch has to be dedicated into contrasting electronic warfare capabilities.

  4. People like to pat themselves on the back for US having “high precision weapons”, but US MIC seems to be overly-reliant on some assumptions, like availability of GPS.

    With GPS being nonexistent on the frontline, even US drones [don’t work anymore](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/10/7450521/) and there are concerns that [GLSB bombs](https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/up-to-date-us-supplied-missiles-to-ukraine-1714162763.html) are a failure in this context.

    Like this quote is somewhat hilarious:

    > Executives at US drone companies say they did not expect electronic warfare to unfold in Ukraine.

  5. EW is a transmission, usually across multiple frequencies or entire bands. The US easily bombed gps jammers at the start of the Iraq war because they were easy to find due to the power of the jamming.

    Anyway Ukraine hopefully will be able to figure out how to track and destroy the jammers.

  6. What’s jamming can also be destroyed. Just have to find the source or sources. Anything creating a blanket that large is emitting a huge signal.

  7. blyat…… They need some weapon home in on the jammer signal. The jammers must be really visible since they are pumping out a lot of power.

  8. Inb4 it’s all a psyops to get Russia feeling cocky when Excalibur effectiveness is like 98%

  9. …”That information comes from a hearing in the House of Representatives of a member of the Hudson Institute think tank, in turn quoting a member of the RUSI think tank.
    We are talking about think-tanks and not official government or military sources that may use, for example, classified information in their studies.
    We do not know the research methodology and how those information were obtained.
    We do not know what the “statistical sample” was, whether it concerned a given operational theater, among which units it was collected, or whether the effectiveness subsequently improved.
    So basically, before any official info will not pop out anywhere, we do not know nothing…”

  10. Oh don’t worry, republicans say Russia is not a threat.

  11. One of my buddies is Dutch and was stationed in the black sea, Russians tried to mess with them and jam their communications, so they jammed them back to the point where they fried all of their electronics. It soon stopped any messing about from the Russian side.

    Don’t mess with more technologically advanced nations, it doesn’t end well when they fire back at you

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