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((TITLE: TV Ukraine Electronic Warfare – Prus
HEAD: How Can Ukraine Counter Russia’s Electronic Warfare?
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PUBLISHED: 12/14/2023 at 10:10am
BYLINE: Mariia Prus
DATELINE: Washington
CAMERA: Dmytro Savchuk
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SCRIPT EDITORS: KEnochs; Holly Franko
VIDEO FROM: VOA, Agencies, Zoom, Skype
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TYPE: TVR
TRT: 4:00
VIDEO APPROVER'S INITIALS: KE
UPDATE: All Zoom & Skype interviews are cleared for use))
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[[In its war against Ukraine, Russia may not have established military superiority, but it has been successful at electronic warfare. It’s now using its IT edge to disable Ukrainian GPS-guided drones and Western high-precision weapons. Mariia Prus has the story.]]
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This video shows Ukraine’s forces destroying Russia’s electronic warfare systems Pole-21. The system creates radio
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interference and suppresses signals from navigation satellites, including GPS, and that’s what the
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Ukrainian army relies on to aim its combat aviation, artillery and missiles. U.S.
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military expert Philip Karber visited Ukraine in November and was on the front lines.
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((Phillip Karber, President, Potomac Foundation)) ((Zoom))
“The Russians have developed and are using a new electronic warfare system. And at least on a portion of the front – it's not clear how much of the area – it's about 40% effective. It is essentially distorting their location. So, these munitions aren't hitting where they're targeted.”
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James Lewis with the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the Soviet Union – and later Russia – has historically been good at electronic warfare.
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((James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies)) ((Zoom))
“All of the things you've heard about Russia are true. It is a meat grinder; their troops are ill-trained; they're badly equipped; they aren't very good at planning. It's a benefit for them to be on the defensive because they don't have to think as much. One area where that's not true, though, is electronic warfare. Building on their work that goes back to the last century, the Russians are strong in EW.”
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Bryan Clark with the Hudson Institute says
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Russia started using electronic warfare about six months after it invaded Ukraine.
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((Bryan Clark, Hudson Institute)) ((Skype))
“By jamming GPS, radio communications, the Russians are making it difficult for Ukrainian troops to be able to coordinate with each other because their radios are sometimes not working. And the biggest effect is on GPS because most of Ukraine's weapons are GPS-guided.”
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Yet, Ukraine is also learning how to use EW.
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“I got this little gadget – thanks to it I’ve already downed a few kamikaze drones!”
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((Bryan Clark, Hudson Institute)) ((Skype))
“Ukraine has been using these same techniques very effectively against Russia, and they're building new systems to do it better. So you'll see hopefully some of these GPS-guided missile or Shahed UAVs miss their targets because they're being jammed.”
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Experts say sanctions are forcing Russia to use its own government technologies, while Ukraine has access to private start-ups, foreign companies and Western technologies.
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In their 2022 study, the Royal United Services Institute calculated that in the first months of the war, Russia’s EW disabled about 90% of all Ukrainian drones and considerably interfered with the work of
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aviation. And what’s more, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has drawn the world’s attention to EW.
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((James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies)) ((Zoom))
“At least on the military side, there's an awareness that this is a place where we need to be able to fight and to overcome our opponents, to overcome Russia.”
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In the recent aid packages sent to Ukraine, Western countries have supplied EW systems. Yet experts advise Ukraine and NATO to invest more in developing an electronic antidote to Russia’s EW systems.
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((James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies)) ((Zoom))
“It's a very dynamic situation where the technology changes really quite rapidly, and I think the best thing that Ukraine and its partners can do is continue to adjust, continue to put the money into identifying, analyzing and then countering Russian EW equipment.”
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Lewis added the EW developments are watched closely, not just by NATO, but China as well.
((For Mariia Prus in Washington, Anna Rice, VOA News))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateDecember 14, 2023 10:03 EST
BylineMariia Prus
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