By Matthew Cox
Soldiers from the Army's 1st Infantry Division of late got the direct a opportunity to assault some other unit of measurement alongside the service's starting fourth dimension electronic warfare (EW) paradigm equipment during a force-on-force practice at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. The 1st ID's 1st Brigade Combat Team at Fort Riley, Kansas, is the starting fourth dimension stateside unit of measurement to have the same EW prototypes that went to forward-based units inward Europe inward February. After receiving the assortment of electronic sensing as well as jamming equipment inward March, the unit's electronic warfare officers pose it into activity equally constituent of the opposing forcefulness at NTC, "locating the 'blue' or friendly forces on the battlefield, passing that data to the OPFOR commander as well as fifty-fifty applying some jamming effects against the friendly forces," according to a recent Army press release. "This was our initial exam of the equipment away from abode station inward a realistic operational environment," Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Robinson, electronic warfare non-commissioned officeholder inward accuse alongside the 1st BCT, said inward the release. "When our brigade goes to the NTC subsequently this year, we'll live on able to integrate the equipment inside our organic brigade, using the equipment inward the same environment, but this fourth dimension against the OPFOR."
The Army Rapid Capabilities Office as well as Project Manager EW & Cyber developed as well as delivered the prototypes inward reply to an operational needs controversy from United States of America Army Europe, according to the release.
The EW gear was starting fourth dimension fielded to units inward Europe -- such equally the 2d Cavalry Regiment; 173rd Airborne Brigade; as well as 2d Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division -- for utilization inward operational exercises this spring, including Sabre Strike as well as the Joint Warfighting Assessment.
The prototypes volition serve equally an interim solution until the Army's EW programs of tape tin live on fielded, according to the release.
"Recognizing this is a paradigm system, it is nonetheless a footstep inward the correct direction," Warrant Officer 1 Christopher Mizer, an electronic warfare technician alongside the 1st BCT at Riley, said inward the release.
"We haven't had a arrangement inside the electronic warfare community that looks at the electromagnetic spectrum as well as forces soldiers to intend through what they are seeing, how that affects their commander's mission, as well as how they tin touching on the spectrum to enable the commander," he added.
The EW systems are helping the soldiers at Riley as well as inward Europe acquire how to struggle alongside this type of applied scientific discipline on the battlefield, the unloosen states.
"If nosotros did zilch electronic warfare-wise until nosotros genuinely plain a programme of tape EW system, nosotros would live on significantly further behind," Mizer said inward the release. "We wouldn't know how to integrate them, operate them, hold them or struggle those systems when nosotros acquire them.
"This is genuinely informing that process. It's forcing our EW soldiers to aspect at the intellectual work of determining how you lot struggle an EW system. That's something the Army hasn't genuinely done inward almost 3 decades," he added.
The Army plans to proceed this phased fielding approach as well as collect soldier feedback to assistance evolution of the programme of tape EW equipment, the unloosen states.
While at NTC, soldiers from 1st BCT were able to operate straight alongside equipment developers on improvements to the systems, such equally making them to a greater extent than "user-friendly," Robinson said inward the release.
"We were able to operate alongside the engineers as well as position items that needed to live on fixed," he said. "We await some improvements soon earlier nosotros stimulate got the equipment dorsum to our brigade's rotation at the NTC subsequently this year."
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