Expert Russian EW systems can inhibit us satellites

MOSCOW, April 15 – RIA Novosti. Russia became leaders both qualitatively and quantitatively, with a wide range of systems of electronic warfare (EW), can have a significant impact on the course of battle and act even in space, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday, a military expert Alexei Leonov.

every year on April 15 in the Armed forces, the day of specialist electronic warfare – a professional holiday established by presidential decree of 31 may 2006.

“the Russian army has adopted the complexes of local actions that protect aircraft, ships, manpower in a limited area, neutralizing fuzes ammunition, acting on intelligence systems that confuse homing, intercepting control system for drones, and even those that affects space objects”, – he stressed.

According to experts, in the coming years, the value of EW will only increase due to the increasing role of information technologies in the control of troops and weapons.

“So, DARPA (Department of advanced research projects U.S. Department of defense) considers that the main danger to the space groups are the Russian electronic warfare systems, and the threat will only increase,” he said.