COURSE # ROO-481
MODERN ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW): ADVANCED TOPICS
Up-to-date presentation of advanced principles, techniques and modern operational implementations of Electronic Warfare Systems.
In today's combat environment, the effectiveness of a weapon system is predicated on the ability to deceive and negate enemy radar and communications, while resisting jamming from increasingly numerous, powerful and sophisticated emitters.
This intensive, two-day course, presented by the author of the course textbook, provides the theoretical and practical backgrounds needed for evaluation, design, and implementation of modern EA and ES systems. The characteristics of advanced radar and missile threats will be delineated, and advanced ES receiving and processing equipment evaluated in the context of advanced techniques employed in monopulse deception, coherent radar jamming, high-ERP generation, tactical support jamming, and stealth technology.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of the:
- Advanced EW system architectures.
- Interaction of EW with Information Warfare.
- Stealth principles and techniques.
- Directed energy weapons.
Who should attend:
This intensive two-day course provides the theoretical and practical backgrounds needed to evaluate, design and implement EA and ES systems dealing with advanced EW threats. It has been specially developed to serve as a valuable informational and design resource for EW Officers, Managers, Engineers, and Technical Professionals working in the EW field. Although this has no prerequisites, a technical degree or equivalent experience, preferably combined with our Introductory EW Course #ROO-480, would be beneficial. These two courses, #ROO-480 and ROO-481, are offered contiguously and can be taken as a five-day long program at a significant savings in price.
Course Outline:
- Modern EA Systems - Architecture, Types, Technology
- EW Signal Processing - types and requirements
- Modern EA architectures and operations
- Software control of EA sets
- The role of expendables - chaff and decoys
- Comparing EW receiver capabilities
- Types of receivers
- Display capabilities
- Airborne EW - the technology evolution
- Advanced EW technical approaches
- Integrated circuit advances - VHSIC, MMIC
- Active aperture technology
- EW and radar bands - RWR architectures
- Antiradiation missiles
- Advanced Threat Radars and Missile Systems
- Multiple channel radar receivers
- Monopulse
- Sidelobe cancellation, sidelobe blanking
- Coherent signal processing
- Pulse Doppler, MTI
- Pulse compression
- Frequency diversity and parameter agility
- VHF to MMW
- PRI and RF agility
- Multifunction radars
- Search while track
- Illumination for semiactive missiles
- Countering missile systems
- Maneuverability and speed considerations
- RF and IR seekers
- EA system design - air defense example
- Advanced EA Technology
- Monopulse deception
- Cross eye, cross polarization
- Dual polarization EA
- Terrain bounce
- Doppler and coherent radar jamming
- Digital RF memory
- Camouflage jamming
- Search radar jamming
- High ERP generation
- Active aperture transmitter and antenna techniques
- Design example
- Countering stealth technology
- Shaping methods - impact on "hot spots"
- RAM - sensitivity to frequency
- Cancellation and resonance
- Considerations for next generation radars - rebalancing radar equations
- Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) and Stealth Technology
- Directed energy weapons
- High-power microwave weapons
- Propagation limitations
- Beam generation
- HPM effect on electronic equipment
- High energy lasers (HEL)
- Laser atmospheric propagation
- Laser beam control
- Charged particle beam weapons
- Stealth
- Stealth fundamentals
- Rebalancing the radar equation
- MTI considerations for stealth targets
Text: Introduction to Electronic Warfare, by D.C. Schleher.
About the Instructor
D. Curtis Schleher is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. Formerly, he was Vice-President of Engineering at Telephonics Corporation, Director of Research and Development at AIL Division of Eaton Corporation, and Manager of the Advanced Development Laboratories at Raytheon Corporation.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the author of five books: MTI Radar, Automatic Detection and Radar Data Processing, Introduction to Electronic Warfare, MTI and Pulsed Doppler Radar, and Electronic Warfare in the Information Warfare Age.
Details:
Course: ROO-481 Duration: 2 Days FEE: $995 CEUs: 1.44
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding our courses to Robert Blakely, Program Director, by e-mail, FAX: (301) 871-4942 or TELEPHONE: (301) 871-9608.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified March 30, 1999.
