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NEMESIS is not just some 'paper program.' From publicly available, but obscure documents we've collected, it's clear that, for years, the Navy has been developing and integrating multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and communication technologies to give it the ability to project what is, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and submarines. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above and below the ocean's surface. As a result, this networked and cooperative electronic warfare concept brings an unprecedented level of guileful fidelity to the fight. It's not just about disrupting the enemy's capabilities or confusing them at a command and control level, but also about making their sensors tell them the same falsehoods across large swathes of the battlespace.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday November 09 2019, @09:53AM
Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) are measures taken to degrade the enemy's use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Modern ECM has been around for over 100 years in some shape or form.
All we are seeing is the next logical step to distort the enemy's perception of the 'battlefield' - albeit at sea. If the enemy can no longer trust his radars, his electronic surveillance equipment, or his targeting information it places him at a significant disadvantage. TFA makes it sound as though this is different and special. It is different only in the equipment being used - not in its purpose. And to suggest that it is coordinated between multiple vehicles and platforms is not new either. Perhaps the degree of coordination will be new, but TFA doesn't actually give much detail about that other than it brings a "unprecedented level of guileful fidelity" to the activity. It is nteresting, particularly to someone like myself who was an electronic warfare officer on board aircraft, but nothing that couldn't have been forecast as technology advances.
Don't for one minute think the only one side in any future battle will be doing this or that one side will have a particular permanent advantage. In time, Electronic Counter-Counter Measures will also advance to minimise the effect of this activity.