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    7 months ago

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    Mike Nagata, a retired US Army lieutenant general who led special operations in the Middle East, said that the US is “still falling behind” in its electronic warfare capabilities, reported Defense One.

    “The gap between where the United States should be and where we are, in my judgment, continues to expand not everywhere, but in far too many places,” Nagata reportedly said at the SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida.

    They said that one reason the Kremlin’s technology is significantly better, is because it ignored international laws designed to stop jamming of civilian telecommunications.

    It had also invested in electromagnetic innovation for decades while the US had focused its jamming technology on gathering intelligence in areas such as the Middle, according to the publication.

    Last year, Ukraine’s outgoing senior commander, Valery Zaluzhnyi, in an interview with The Economist, said Russia’s electronic warfare capability had given it an important edge.

    In May, Defense News that the Pentagon is spending millions on developing new electronic warfare systems and technology to evade GPS jamming.


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