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WASHINGTON \u2014 Worried the U.S. Army is unprepared to take on Russia in Europe, U.S. lawmakers have advanced legislative language to pressure the Pentagon to catch up on electronic warfare, long-range missiles and countering drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed language would require Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to give Congress a strategy to speed Army\u2019s tech development in the three areas \u2014 a sign of a growing bipartisan lawmaker interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the proposal, part of the House\u2019s 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, must be reconciled with the Senate\u2019s version, it\u2019s telling that both the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s top Republican, Chairman Mac Thornberry, and top Democrat, ranking member Adam Smith, are on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we see the sophisticated capabilities that our potential adversaries, especially the Russians and the Chinese, are developing, I am concerned that we are falling behind in areas where we used to be a leader and that we are failing to develop emerging technologies at the appropriate pace,\u201d Thornberry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The provision comes from a bill Smith proposed in July aimed at forcing the Trump administration to craft a full policy to deter Russian aggression \u2014 including plans to provide the \u201cproper attention, focus and resources\u201d to counter Russian electronic warfare, Smith said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DoD has largely been focused on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism for the past decade and a half. But in the wake of Russian belligerence in Europe, there\u2019s a growing acknowledgement America needs to address Russian capabilities, especially those that can spoof America\u2019s systems, degrade its command and control and eavesdrop on its communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army, in particular, looks vulnerable. The Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, a bulwark of the NATO alliance that has spent recent years rotating in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan, lacks \u201cessential capabilities needed to accomplish its mission effectively and with decisive speed,\u201d according an analysis by the brigade, obtained by Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capability gaps emerged in recent training with Ukrainian troops who had experience battling Russian-backed separatists. Those forces have used cheap drones and electronic warfare tools to pinpoint targets for artillery barrages and devastate Ukraine\u2019s armored vehicles with state-of-the-art Russian antitank missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortfalls, which included the 173rd\u2019s lack of air defense and electronic warfare units, and over-reliance on satellite communications and GPS navigation systems were tied to the Army\u2019s years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the enemy has no air power or other high-end equipment and technology, Politico reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little relief is coming under current plans as current EW investment totals just 0.8 percent and 1.6 percent of the Army\u2019s procurement and research and development budgets, respectively, leaving the Army without a new offensive jammer until 2023. A recent Center for Strategic and International Studies report from Andrew Hunter<\/a> calls on the Army to \u201csignificantly increase EW funding in the coming years to not only accelerate production of new capabilities but also to fund production of critical capacity indigenous to the Army.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former U.S. Army\u2019s electronic warfare division chief Laurie Moe Buckhout, now with The Corvus Group, said that from the top down, the Russians better understand cyber and electronic warfare as an integrated element when maneuvering their own forces and shaping their enemies\u2019 forces. Russian forces might jam an opposing force\u2019s comms, \u201cand if they\u2019re deaf, dumb and blind, they\u2019re going to stop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen you can channel them by allowing them to communicate in one space and not in another,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the Ukraine, they\u2019re driving them off the tactical radio network and onto the cell phones. Then Russian forces are able to target them with kinetic fires because they own the cell phone networks. They\u2019re listening to every word they say and text messaging them as the artillery is coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian troops are better prepared to fight through their own jamming efforts; their senior commanders better understand it than U.S. commanders do; and their Army employs tightly integrated EW-signals intelligence capabilities across its force structure, Buckhout said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, Russian troops have \u201cecheloned\u201d capabilities \u2014 smaller manpack and unmanned aerial systems forward along with rotary wing jammers and signals intelligence\u2014 and farther back larger, more powerful SIGINT\/EW equipment. U.S. ground forces typically have smaller systems, still aimed at countering roadside bombs within a tight radius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Buckhout, the Army\u2019s challenge remains getting past the brigade combat team \u201cbuilding block\u201d concept to integrate EW and SIGINT. Her concerns are that the Army must be able to have integrated, larger and higher-capacity SIGINT\/EW systems at division and corps, not just higher quantities of the same type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have 18-wheelers with parabolic dishes 18 to 20 feet in diameter, and they\u2019re not even made for use at the quick halt, but those things can jam at a 200 km radius and take out an [airborne early warning and control radar] and do some serious damage,\u201d Buckhout said of the Russians. By contrast, she likened U.S. Army\u2019s counter-IED electronic warfare capability to \u201ca .50-cal that shoots one bullet per hour in one direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has a suite of platforms, each designed to counter a U.S. comms capability, according to an Army Asymmetric Warfare Group report. The Russians layer these systems to jam FM, satellite, cellular, GPS and other signals. Certain platforms can emit a signal to overload electronic fuses on incoming guided munitions so that they either detonate early or change course once they make contact with one of these \u201cEW bubbles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EW devices also let Russian forces broadcast messages directly to opposing Ukrainian forces for psychological impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese can be very specific and directed at individuals, such as by threatening their wives and children by name or generic and sent to entire units, as was the case in Ukraine,\u201d the AWG reports. \u201cUkrainian soldiers received text messages on their phone with threats against their families and accurate information of family locations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet there are indications Russian capabilities are limited. The same AWG analysis says the Russian Army will display key weapon systems as universal when they actually exist in limited numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For an anti-access, area-denial, or A2AD, bubble to protect Russian brigades in a major ground operation, Russian forces would need larger numbers of EW and air defense platforms than they have, AWG says. Nearly all of such platforms are in Kaliningrad, Ukraine and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLosing even one of these systems is a significant blow to Russian forces and creates a gap in their A2AD bubble that can be exploited,\u201d AWG says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the lethal roadside bomb threat of the last decade or more, it\u2019s understandable the U.S. military for years focused its resources in countering a less sophisticated enemy, said Thomas Withington, an electronic warfare analyst and consultant in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think a lot of U.S. and NATO doctrine at the moment is based on the assumption of a low-tech enemy, and to be fair, you can\u2019t configure for everything,\u201d Withington said. \u201cMilitary procurement is all about trade-offs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Withington questioned whether Russian EW is the threat it\u2019s been hyped to be. Russia\u2019s ability to fight in a spectrum-contested environment against a NATO-trained enemy is unproven, and it has, tellingly, lost aircraft to rockets in Syria and to NATO air defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat says to me that their jamming isn\u2019t as good as it should be,\u201d Withington said. \u201cRussian EW tends to have quite a lot of bluster behind it. It\u2019s always the best system, the most powerful, and it\u2019s always on all of their airplanes. Then you find out it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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