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Fundamentals of Electronic Warfare,
S. A. Vain, L. N. Shustov, and R. H. Dunwell (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2001)
Fundamentals of Electronic Warfare (EW) introduces the reader to the basic concepts involved in aircraft survivability equipment (ASE), with particular emphasis on defeating antiaircraft (AA) radars. The authors define EW as:
A set of measures and actions performed by the conflicting sides to detect and electronically attack enemy electronic systems for the control of forces and weapons, including high-precision weapons, as well as to electronically defend one's own electronic systems and other targets from technical intelligence (electronic intelligence, ELINT), jamming and nondeliberate interference.
The authors consider all methods of protecting aircraft part of the taxonomy of EW, to include regular jamming of air defense radars (called masking jamming), deception, jamming the radars on high-speed antiradiation missiles (HARMs), and directed energy destruction of radars. All of these are referred to as types of jamming. Jamming is presented as a method of reducing the target's information stability. Information stability is the opposite of information damage, which is what a jammer attempts to do to a targeted system.
With few exceptions, the material in this book (in particular Chapters 1 through 3) can be applied to all electronic attack (EA) analyses. These chapters present mathematical models of...