This is the Krasukha-4. It is a highly sophisticated electronic warfare system that is now being used by Russia military forces to cloak its actions in Syria from Nato, as well as from Islamic State and other rebel groupsVitaly V. Kuzmin, Wikimedia Commons
IBTimes: Russia using electronic warfare to cloak its actions in Syria from Isis and Nato
Fed up of the West's indecisiveness on dealing with the ongoing situation in Syria, Russia is now providing direct military air support to Syria, and it is using electronic warfare to jam Islamic State's (IS) communications, as well as to prevent Nato from detecting what it is up to, according to an electronic warfare expert.
Electronic warfare is the ability to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum in order to sense where enemy targets are so that you can attack the enemy first, or to prevent the enemy from attacking you. Examples of things you can do with electronic warfare include communications jamming, radar jamming, reconnaissance and countermeasures using infrared, radio and electro-optical frequencies.
WNU Editor: Something is telling me that the Russians in Syria are more focused on "blinding" the U.S./NATO/Turkey than ISIS.
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WNU Editor,
The Saudi/GCC/Turkey arms supplies to the jihadi's included commercial and military frequency crawling, encrypted radios.
The U.S., via Division 30, provided the jihadi's with state of the art, ground to air comms, including secure communications to recon satellites and birds.
The jihadi's have better and more secure comms than the Syrian Army, many of their units still broadcast in the clear.
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