Electronic warfare in the military field, what is the main application?

The general mission of electronic warfare is to destroy and weaken the enemy's combat capability by interfering with and suppressing the enemy's communications and various electronic systems, and to seize local or full control of the electromagnetic spectrum within a specific period of time, and to maintain and improve the combat capability of our own side. Effective electronic warfare helps to reduce the loss rate of their own side of the war planes, improve the long-term preservation of the ability of the aviation force; in their own side to selectively focus their forces to raid important targets can reduce the danger faced by the participating aircraft, to ensure the smooth implementation of the air campaign.

Electronic warfare is divided into electronic reconnaissance, electronic countermeasures, electronic counter reconnaissance, electronic anti-resistance four aspects. Electronic reconnaissance is the use of electronic reconnaissance devices on the enemy's radar and communications systems and other kinds of electronic equipment emitted by the signal detection, identification, analysis and positioning, in order to find out its parameters, in order to determine the basis for the battle against the target. The main means are reconnaissance satellites, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and ground reconnaissance stations. Electronic anti-reconnaissance is used to protect its own electronic equipment from being discovered, identified and localized by the enemy's technical reconnaissance, and its main means are active photoelectric interference, direct destruction of enemy reconnaissance resources and concealment of its own equipment. Electronic countermeasures is to use specialized jamming equipment to interfere with each other's electronic facilities, so that the enemy's electronic equipment malfunction, mainly positive and negative interference. Electronic countermeasures is to protect the normal work of their own electronic equipment is an important measure, mainly for the enemy to cast interference in the type of appropriate methods to be excluded.

In the air campaign, the focus of electronic warfare is reconnaissance, feint, interference and destruction. Battle preparation stage focuses on strengthening electronic reconnaissance, find out the enemy's air defense system in the alert radar, guidance radar, C3I system, as well as the configuration of the weapon guidance system information and performance parameters, in order to create conditions for the implementation of electronic jamming and destruction, and with the application of jamming and radio false communication method to carry out electronic feints, deception and confusion of the enemy. In the process of battle implementation, the main use of electronic jamming aircraft pieces with the cover or long-distance cover as well as the assault fleet of aircraft using their own electronic jamming equipment combination of methods, electronic jamming or destruction of the enemy. Electronic warfare aircraft in the air battle to escort the mission, usually 4 to 5 (sometimes 8) jamming aircraft formed a specialized jamming formation in front of the assault formation of 3 to 5 minutes distance flight, in the middle and high altitude with the spreading of metal foils (strips), infrared decoy bombs, active jamming and other means of covering the assault formation. After arriving at the combat airspace, the jamming formation flew circuitously in the designated airspace to implement strong electronic jamming on the target area and cover the assault formation attack.