December 4, 2015
...The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments concludes the U.S. has not kept up with development of electromagnetic weapons and defense systems.
The electromagnet problem is growing quickly, with Russia and China being among the leaders in development. “Rivals such as China and Russia have taken advantage of DoD’s investment pause to build systems that exploit America’s sensor and communication vulnerabilities with the intent of taking apart its military networks during a conflict,” the report warned. It said military advisories have fielded radars that operate outside the frequency range of U.S. jammers and developed their own jammers that are capable of targeting frequencies used by U.S. sensors and radios. “China, Russia, and other adversaries have exploited their home-field advantage by deploying large, complex sensor arrays that outrange most sensors carried by U.S. power projection forces.”...
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