Assessment of the Efficiency of Using Radio Electronic Warfare Measures for Countering High Precision Weapons as a Component Operation in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Abstract

The presence of a significant number of strike systems of high-precision weapons at the enemy causes an urgent need to create effective systems for the protection of infrastructural and military facilities. One of the elements of such systems can be the forces and means of radio-electronic warfare, which will allow to carry out protective actions in the electromagnetic spectrum. But in the current conditions of resource and time limitations, the involvement of electronic warfare means in such protection systems is a certain scientific and practical problem that needs to be solved, in particular, through the determination of the predicted effectiveness of their functioning in the system of object protection. The article proposes an approach according to which the actions of high-precision weapons in the process of aiming them at objects and the corresponding measures of defense systems used against them are considered antagonistic, since they are performed both with the use of transmitting and receiving radio-electronic means of high-precision weapons, and protection systems. The use of radio-electronic warfare in operations in the electromagnetic spectrum to counter high-precision weapons is being investigated as a component of operations in the electromagnetic spectrum. To conduct the research, a tactical combat episode was considered, in which the accepted assumptions and limitations do not distort the content and physical essence of the processes of radio-electronic warfare with high-precision weapons. It is proposed to evaluate radio-electronic warfare based on the probability indicator of disorganization of the high-precision weapon guidance system. It is shown that, in accordance with the accepted conditions, in the numerical definition, the indicator is limited by the probability of successful guidance, which is provided by an inertial system that does not require the organization of radio communication lines, and data transmission is carried out in the internal control loop. The proposed indicator can characterize the use of electronic warfare forces and means in defense systems against high-precision weapons, since it depends on: from the technical characteristics of samples of high-precision weapons (indirectly determines the immunity of the radio lines of their guidance systems); from the capabilities of the forces and means of radio-electronic warfare with high-precision weapons. Keywords: high-precision weapons; operation in the electromagnetic spectrum; electronic warfare; guidance systems.