Security News > 2020 > May > New US Electronic Warfare Platform

The Army is developing a new electronic warfare pod capable of being put on drones and on trucks.

The Silent Crow pod is now the leading contender for the flying flagship of the Army's rebuilt electronic warfare force.

Historically, cyber operations occurred over landline networks and electronic warfare over radio-frequency airwaves.

The pod's digital brain also uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze enemy signals it detects and compute effective countermeasures on the fly, instead of having to return to base and download new data to human analysts.

EDITED TO ADD: Here are two reports on Russian electronic warfare capabilities.

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