Russia is seriously ahead of America in the field of electronic warfare (EW), and it will take time, to close the gap, leads RIA Novosti opinion of the US Naval Analysis Center expert Samuel Bendetto.
According to the expert, previously American technology surpassed Soviet counterparts, but the Pentagon hastily suspended development in the field of electronic warfare since the collapse of the USSR. Now US forces "faced with the inability to resist the" Russian system, and complex operations, conducted with their use.
Bendetto notes, that in the past the Russian Federation 5 years of testing a number of different systems EW. According to him, Only in Syria it was tested about two hundred different technologies. Among them, "krasukha ew system" complexes, "Moscow-1", "Leer-3".
expert said, that Russian military specialists created in the SAR "multi-layered defense", which together with EW systems involve "early warning radars" and air defense systems, such as «shell-S". Stage tactics proved to be effective, he added.
He also told, that the Black Sea region and in Syria Russians actively collect and analyze electronic signals Western aircraft and missiles.
This is the main threat to Western technological dominance, He stressed Bendetto, as Russian can "teach" their electronic warfare system to deal with military equipment, "I am focusing on its specific signals and signature".
In conclusion, the expert said, US, of course, will be able to catch up with the Russian Federation in this area, but this will take time.
