China has developed a new type of electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment that can accurately intercept and jam high-frequency civilian communication equipment led by Starlink. If the equipment is applied, it is expected to completely change the development trend of electronic warfare in the future and give the PLA the ability to abolish "Starlink" as soon as the battle begins.
Electronic warfare jamming vehicles equipped with PLA Army units].
Some Hong Kong media quoted the Chinese academic journal "Radiocommunication Technology" as saying that Chinese scientists have developed a new type of electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment that can change the mode of electronic warfare confrontation.
It is reported that this new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment allows users to monitor all electromagnetic signals in a certain area in real time. At the same time, the technology can analyze the specified signal in a very short time, decipher and thus reverse locate the emitter.
The high-tech -11 electronic jammer equipped by the People's Liberation Army].
Of course, none of this performance is the key to this device. Crucially, this device further increases the signal analysis band range from 40-160 megahertz to gigahertz with traditional electronic warfare equipment.
This means that almost all electromagnetic frequency bands that can be used to transmit information, including "Starlink", can be monitored by this new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment, and this is the main reason why foreign media say that "once this equipment and technology is applied, the opponents of the PLA will have 'nowhere to hide' on the battlefield".
Due to the constraints of the electronic warfare equipment's own hardware, traditional spectrum monitoring and analysis equipment can only monitor and analyze signals in the range of 40-160 megahertz in real time. Although it can also be monitored in the face of higher frequency gigahertz signals, due to the extremely high information density of gigahertz signals and the relatively limited receiving capacity of the receiver, it is difficult to say how many signals that can be analyzed can be intercepted from monitoring and monitoring.
Therefore, when conducting radio communications, in addition to the most basic encryption processing, each team will also use pulse radio and other technologies to convert the signal into a high-frequency signal to reduce the risk of being intercepted by enemy electronic warfare equipment. In fact, some US military units will do the opposite, using high-band civilian communication equipment such as Starlink to communicate, "bypassing" the work area of traditional electronic warfare equipment.
Starlink can play an important role in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, largely because although the Russian army's electronic warfare capabilities are strong, it is difficult to exert force in this frequency band, giving a large number of Ukrainian troops equipped with Starlink an opportunity.
The Y-8 electronic jammer equipped by the PLA].
The outside world will attach great importance to the new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment disclosed this time, which is also based on this reason. Because after the high-frequency civilian communication equipment represented by "Starlink" made a stunning appearance in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, many militaries, including the U.S. military, began to play the idea of high-frequency communication. Some rather radical views even say that the US military should completely replace the existing communication system with Starlink to make up for the shortcomings of the US military's lack of combat capability in a "complex electromagnetic environment".
In this case, once this electromagnetic spectrum monitoring technology is applied on a large scale, the PLA will have the ability to intercept and analyze high-frequency signals on the battlefield. In addition to allowing the PLA to offset the US military's advantage on this issue, this analysis can also allow the PLA's electronic warfare equipment to target interference with the high-frequency signal frequency bands used by the US military with higher accuracy.
The electronic pod equipped with the PLA J-16D electronic warfare aircraft].
This can not only greatly improve the jamming efficiency of the PLA's electronic warfare equipment, but also increase the directivity of the interference signal. With the reverse positioning performance of the new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment, the PLA will have the ability to use this technology to reverse locate the enemy's signal emission source, reduce the probability of being reversed by the enemy, and strengthen the concealment and battlefield survivability of its own electronic warfare forces.
What's more, although the new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment has improved the ability to parse high-frequency signals, this does not mean that it can only parse high-frequency signals. On the contrary, this device still retains the capabilities of traditional electronic warfare equipment, and has been greatly improved due to the analysis efficiency and positioning accuracy. The new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment even theoretically has the ability to suppress the electronic warfare jamming signals sent by the enemy and protect its own communication signals.
This is undoubtedly good news for the PLA, which needs to deal with a potential conflict with the US military in the western Pacific, because although the PLA today has a large-scale land-based ocean-going early warning and reconnaissance system and a space-based satellite reconnaissance system, the US military in wartime will not sit back and let the PLA watch casually.
A U.S. ** boat that conducts smoke masking interference training].
The U.S. carrier's strike group will inevitably carry out a series of countermeasures, including radar, communication jamming and even smoke masking, and if the PLA can popularize new electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment to front-line combat units.
Then, even if the space-based and land-based reconnaissance systems are unable to play a role due to countermeasures, the front-line combat units can still use this technology to continuously locate the position of the US aircraft carrier, and on the one hand carry out electronic warfare suppression on the US ** team, on the other hand, protect their own communications from the electronic warfare jamming signals of the US military, and maintain the operational efficiency of the command system.
It is worth mentioning that the chief engineer of the project of the equipment also said in ** that this equipment has the characteristics of "small size, high performance and low power consumption".
J-16D electronic warfare aircraft equipped by the People's Liberation Army].
Although we don't know how small the "small size" here is, if this equipment can be installed on military aircraft in the form of pods or even internal equipment, then the PLA's J-16D electronic warfare aircraft is expected to have a generation gap with the US military's E A-18G electronic warfare aircraft in electronic warfare performance.
As a result, the PLA will further build its superiority in air warfare after building up its surface electronic warfare superiority, and comprehensively overwhelm the US military in the western Pacific in the field of electronic warfare.