Thales reinvents Electronic Warfare to give armed forces the digital edge

When you are as big and visible as a battleship on the high seas, you don't even think about hiding. So how do you avoid becoming a true sitting duck for a quick missile strike from an agile adversary on land or on sea? Indeed, that's why Electronic Warfare (EW) was invented; it, together with radar, was used to detect threats, take evasive action and, if needed, to launch countermeasures against any attack and its source. However, the telecommunications boom, including networks of signals for billions of mobile phones and computers, has created massive congestion if not saturation in the radiofrequency spectrum. The result: it's much more difficult to find'signals of interest' in military terms; the arrival of 5G telecommunications and the internet of things are adding even more electromagnetic fog that obscures threat detection. In fact, separating the wheat from the chaff today is more like finding a needle in a haystack.