Europe's Helicopter Electronic Warfare Programs

摘要

Following nearly two decades of campaigns conducted in the permissive RF threat environments of the Middle East and Afghanistan, European armed forces are shifting more attention to regional priorities, especially requirements that address so-called near peer and high capability adversaries. Nowhere is this emerging threat more apparent than in eastern Europe, where Russia and its allies have been steadily fielding new air defense systems, including those deployed with its armor and artillery units. In response, NATO partners are seeking to upgrade the electronic warfare (EW) capabilities of their rotary-wing assets to bolster their survivability in the more complex and dangerous threat environments along NATO's eastern border.