{"id":2191,"date":"2020-12-04T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2020-12-04T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:38:08","slug":"us-army-wants-electronic-jammer-weapon-with-missile-defense-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"US Army Wants Electronic Jammer Weapon With Missile Defense Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tuesday for a vehicle-mounted electronic jamming system that will uniquely have the ability to jam incoming projectiles, fouling their targeting in the moments before impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russian Army Electronic Jammer Weapon System. (Photo by \u00a9 Sputnik \/ Pavel Lisitsyn)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the Army\u2019s CEMAlite conference on Tuesday, three Army colonels discussed a new electronic warfare system they hope to employ in the coming years to disrupt enemy weapons systems even more than the Terrestrial Layer System (TLS) already under development.

The TLS is designed to operate at the brigade level and will fit on a Stryker armored vehicle. However, the system unveiled on Tuesday will be considerably more powerful, and is thus dubbed the TLS-Echelons Above Brigade (TLS-EAB), Breaking Defense reported.

According to the outlet, the system will likely be mounted on two Oshkosh Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle (FMTV) trucks, each of which will cover different responsibilities. Together, they will be able to locate enemy signals and relay the information for other forces to attack, as well as identify and track incoming weapons, such as missiles, artillery shells and drones, in order to jam them.

Breaking Defense reports the TLS-EAB will employ a number of deceptive practices to make incoming projectiles lose their targets, including electronic jamming, wireless hacking and sending deceptive signals in order to create decoys. Since so many modern weapons rely on GPS tracking and radar for guidance and detonation, this makes them especially vulnerable to electronic warfare.

Like other air defense systems, the TLS will be able to plug into the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) being tested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, giving it the ability to both send and receive information from other radar systems and weapons systems in the network.

The US Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) first outlined the Echelons Above Brigade combined arms concept in 2018 as part of the Multi-Domain Operations Concept, noting its necessity as part of a shift in strategic thinking concurrent with the Trump administration\u2019s shift away from the War on Terror. The CAC notes that \u201cwe find ourselves entering a new era where the threat of large-scale ground combat is more likely than at any point since the end of the Cold War.\u201d

The new US Space Force (USSF) is also concerned with jamming and counter-jamming efforts, and the branch\u2019s new \u201cSpacepower\u201d doctrine notes that because space assets are operated by surface-based personnel, space operations are also inherently multi-domain.

The first version of the TLS is expected to enter service in 2022, but the Army still hasn\u2019t selected which version it will adopt: that built by Lockheed Martin or its rival firm, Boeing. However, Breaking Defense notes the TLS-EAB could be in service by the end of 2023.

Source:<\/strong> By Morgan Artyukhina – sputniknews.com – 30 September 202<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Army Medium Tactical Vehicle (FMTV) TLS-Echelons Above Brigade (TLS-EAB) System (Photo by \u00a9 U.S. Army)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photo Story: The\n Army has outlined plans for a new electronic warfare, signals \nintelligence and cyber capability for larger echelons. (U.S. Army) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON (c4isrnet.com<\/a>)\u00a0 \u2014 In what some observers might view as back to the future, the U.S. Army is altering the way it fights to keep up with sophisticated adversaries, which means shifting from the brigade-centered focus of the last decade to bringing the division and corps levels into the fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n As a result, new capabilities are under development to increase range, \nfight deeper and bolster presence on the nonphysical battlefield, such \nas the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Officials said a fight against a nation-state like Russia or China must\n begin at the corps level, where the focus is destroying high-priority \nsystems to lay the groundwork for lower echelons. They added that the \ncorps level must eliminate these targets first, passing them to the \nlower echelons to include division and brigade, which are both designed \nfor a closer fight to move the enemy back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \u201cWe have got to be able to see deep. If we don\u2019t have the ability to \nsense at the corps level, really what we\u2019re doing is we\u2019re deferring \nthat fight down to the brigade level,\u201d Col. Clint Tracy, III Corps cyber\n and electromagnetic activities chief, said during a Sept. 29 virtual \npanel hosted by the Association of Old Crows. \u201cIf we build the other way\n up, from the brigades to corps \u2026 they may not necessarily be equipped \nwithout additional enablers to kill those things in the battlespace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter what officials are calling the Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade, or TLS-EAB, formerly referred to<\/a> as TLS-Extended Range<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Army leaders this week detailed the first initial notional concepts and\n timeline for the new capability, which will be mainly a division and \ncorps asset capable of reaching and prosecuting targets that the TLS \nsystem at the brigade combat team level cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \u201cTLS-EAB is intended to provide commanders at echelons above brigade \nthe ability to sense, provide improved precision geolocation, conduct \nnon-kinetic fires and support kinetic targeting for a broad coverage of \ntargets \u2026 [that] are unreachable by TLS at BCT,\u201d Col. Jennifer McAfee, \nArmy capability manager for terrestrial layer and identity, said during \nthe same event. TLS-BCT, or Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat \nTeam, is the Army\u2019s first brigade-focused, integrated signals \nintelligence, electronic warfare and cyber platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \u201cTLS-EAB also provides defensive electronic attack to protect our \ncritical nodes, i.e., our command posts and other critical nodes \nvulnerable to the adversary\u2019s precision fires,\u201d McAfee added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She \nalso said TLS-EAB will address several gaps in large-scale combat \noperations to include deep sensing to help target enemy systems in \nanti-access\/area denial environments, and to conduct reconnaissance and \nsecurity at long ranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n It will also provide capabilities for signals intelligence and \nelectronic warfare teams within the Multidomain Task Force\u2019s \nIntelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space (I2CEWS) \nbattalion, as well as signals intelligence and electronic warfare \nbattalions at the division and corps levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is TLS-EAB different from existing capabilities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The key difference between TLS-EAB and other electronic warfare, \nintelligence and cyber platforms \u2014 both airborne or ground-based \u2014 is \nthat the former protects static assets from enemy missiles and unmanned \nsystems that use radar fusing and homing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Officials said the new system will be broken into two broad threat \ncategories: the aforementioned protection against precision-guided \nmunitions dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum; and theater, corps \nand division targets to include ISR, command and control, low- and \nmid-altitude beyond-line-of-sight comminutions, navigation, and air and \nground radars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The service will achieve these effects through advanced electronic \nattack techniques, radio frequency-delivered cyber effects, military \ninformation support operations (formerly called psychological \noperations), and the deception of adversary sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n More granularly, TLS-EAB will be broken into two subsystems for those \ntwo missions: one for long-range collection, electronic support and \neffects; and one for defensive electronic attack. Each will include a \ntrailer attached to the eventual vehicle the Army determines for \nTLS-EAB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n While a specific platform hasn\u2019t specifically been identified for \nTLS-EAB, officials said they are eyeing something wheeled from the \nfamily of medium tactical vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interoperability and long range<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Moreover, the system will connect with other reconnaissance systems in \nan attempt to shorten the sensor-to-shooter timeline, which involves \nrapidly delivery sensitive data from sensors to the platforms or \nindividuals who take action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n These include the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, or \nTITAN; the Multidomain Sensing System; TLS-BCT; the Electronic Planning \nand Management Tool; the Multifunction Electronic Warfare-Air Large; and\n the integrated tactical network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TLS-EAB is one of the top priorities of the Army\u2019s ISR Task Force<\/a>,\n which is modernizing the service\u2019s ability to see across huge ranges \nthrough a layered approach that involves the ground, air and space \ndomains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n U.S. adversaries have invested in capabilities that aim to keep forces \nat bay, such as advanced missiles and radars. To allow American forces \nto penetrate those capabilities and move back ground-based adversaries, \nlarger echelons such as the corps must be able to see and understand \nthese regions in full, which could be over thousands of miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n This also means sifting through all the noise in the congested \nelectromagnetic spectrum to understand and prioritize specific targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n As such, the corps level must see more of the spectrum than the \nbrigade, said Tracy of III Corps, because if the higher echelons did \ntheir jobs right, there shouldn\u2019t be a whole lot left for brigades to \ndeal with in the non-kinetic realm when they are eventually deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Units aren\u2019t expected to first receive TLS-EAB until at least fiscal 2022, the same year as TLS-BCT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The current plan outlined by officials, which they stressed is all \nnotional, is to have a total of 67 TLS-EABs: four per I2CEWS equaling \n16; three per corps equaling nine; four per division equaling 40; and \ntwo at training locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sketch provided by Army leaders is an industry day in January, with a draft request for proposals set for February and bids in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams Barret<\/strong><\/a> (USA XairForces <\/strong><\/a>Editor)
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