December 23, 2015
The U.S. military’s dominance in EMS fell apart around the Cold War, Clark said, thanks in part to the rise of stealth technology.
“Our approach that we pioneered, of using very high-power sensors like radars, and then high-powered jammers … to fight the Soviets was not sustainable,” Clark said. “They were building better radars and jammers of their own. So we went to stealth and said, instead of trying to jam our way through the sensors that the enemy has, I’m going to hide from the sensors. We started to do that and then the Cold War ended, and then we never really made that full transition into this new way of fighting by hiding.”
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