Some of the things Uncle Sam mentioned in recent arms supplied to Ukraine went largely unnoticed by the media, but could make the biggest difference in the ground war and especially in offensive operations. The jamming and anti drone equipment being supplied will blind the Russians and take those drones laser designating targets and guiding artillery out of the air for the most part. One other important thing is it can help hide Ukrainian troop movements from the Russians and allow them to use the element of surprise and deception much easier. Sure the Russians have satellite photo's and they know exactly when the limited number can appear above and they are useless on cloudy days and nights.
The Ukrainians could be massing for an attack on Kherson in the south and drive towards Crimea and use reserve forces to make it appear they are driving for Mariupol or the east on satellite images, it would be hard to tell the difference from satellite images, especially when the Ukrainians hid during satellite passes. Surprise is a big factor in war, the Russians may figure they will attack in the south or east, they are not sure where. Since the Ukrainians have very large reserves, they can use them to hold areas already cleared by the army and mop up in the north east and west. This allows the regular army who do the heavy lifting to move on to the next front and overwhelm them there, destroying and capturing as much as they can now, or they will have to do it later.
Since VLAD placed the Krasukha-4
and Krasukha -2 electronic warfare systems into the hands of untrained imbeciles , important intel such as detection and evasion software / electronic data / frequency capabilities / spectrum and such would be a goldmine. In my opinion, those systems would have been spirited away to Rammstein to have a preliminary look . Rammstein has an airbase and Army Air Defense battalion ( my old unit for patriot systems ) then probably shuttled to u.s. for further analysis - I believe this is similar to systems affecting Finland‘s GPS signals.
With the Krasukha in American hands, any attempt by Russia to rebuild its electronic warfare program will have to start from the assumption that secret innovations in the captured system are now known……..
The system is as big a prize as any from a modern battlefield. Electronic warfare is integral to how modern militaries fight, and the specific nature of detecting, jamming, and otherwise thwarting signals can confer a huge advantage to the military deploying it. Ever since Russia first debuted electronic warfare capabilities against Ukraine in 2014, the U.S. military has treated the threat as real, powerful, and worthy of study and imitation.
For those on the receiving end, electronic warfare can mean system failure for necessary equipment. Shortly after Russian electronic warfare equipment arrived in Crimea in 2014, “Ukrainian troops began to find that their radios and phones were unusable for hours at a time,”
Crucial in learning the capabilities of such systems will help counter GPS sensors on drones , cellular interference to causing electronic fuses in artillery to prematurely detonate. By studying sophisticated jammers , we can analyze its sensors to scan the area for signals, match against known patterns, and then calibrate a response, by sending out other signals on the same frequency.
Its a royal fuckup russia’s on part as the U.S. and other friendlies can now study and re-calibrate their systems to counter .