Excellent youtube on Electronic Warfare - Airborne & Ground Stations

An excellent Youtube on the many aspects of electronic warfare (EW). From Covert Cabal, 

January 13, 2019.

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It has obviously been made with US DoD cooperation. Featuring: 

1 min, 15 secs Boeing EA-18G Growler

1:35 Chaff

2:45 Aircraft Decoys

3:03 eg: the ALE-50 Towed Decoy System and the

3:17 Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) ADM-160

3:55 How EC-130H Compass Call and EA-18Gs fool enemy radars

5:50 How to trick airborne radars

6:52 Jamming communications

7:20 Russian jamming arrays, eg Murmansk-BN eg. in Crimea

8:05 Jamming GPS and other satellite positioning systems

8:52 But advanced US jets are partly reliant on GPS! StormBreaker glide bomb.

9:22 Jamming in spotlight due to Western military's increasing use of  UAV "drones" eg. Reaper and 
         recce RQ-170

9:52 Cheap mini-drones as assassination weapons, Venezuela.

10:50 Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM)

11:05  Anti-jamming weapons

11:15 Frequency hopping as in airborne AESA radars.

12:17 Infrared search and track (IRST) used by Russia.

12:50 Many frequency bands not yet exploited by EW

13:05 Use of ALQ-144 and lasers protecting combatting MANPADS

13:53 Electronic Support Measues / ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions described

14:52 The Murmask-BN ground station also intercepts signals

Some WWII Battle of Britain radar history

16:35 Importance of modern EW.

16:50 EW important to NATO

Pete