Electronic Warfare: The Invisible Battlefield
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- Electronic warfare is essential on the modern battlefield.
This is (hopefully) the first video in a long series dedicated to electronic warfare.
In this video we focus on SIGINT, COMINT and ELINT.
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That elephant scared the shit out of me.....
Came to comment just that. Actually jumped
Yeah, me too.
it got my wife alarmed and asked WTF was that!! 🤣😂 for a really technical video he kept it FUNNY👍
Good thing he didn't say the dinosaur in the room 🦕
This isn’t the first time he’s done it. It gets me every time hahaha.
Your "elephant" always gives me a heart attack.
A short and quick class of EW lol, I remember when I was teaching all this stuff and my students never understand me, thanks for the video.
If you have material to contribute, join me on the discord server or feel free to contact me personally
As an old 70s era EW it is nice to have my assumptions about digital processing confirmed. Tnx.
Thank you for covering these topics, on CZcams no less.
I had to look twice at the channel name because I thought this was a DCS video in my feed. I'd recognize that cockpit anywhere.
1. Nice tie. Love the matching handkerchief, too.
2. This is going to be a great series.
Yes me too lol
As someone who’s always struggled to understand this stuff, one way of describing antennaes that helped me understand their passive nature was hearing them described as to a signal what a lens is to a light source
An easy way to think about antenna gain is to compare it to an antenna that radiates in all directions. If you have 1 watt of energy going into that specific antenna, that 1 watt gets sent in all directions at once. If you put that 1 watt into a directional antenna, all that energy goes just in one direction and the receiver sees a higher signal level. Its like cupping your hands over your mouth to shout. You aren't amplifying your voice, you are just making it all go in one direction instead of everywhere.
Ooooh, hold all calls I require 20 mins! The best channel has uploaded. In fact make that 40 mins I may require 2 watches to get my head around this most interesting topic.
Twenty to watch, ten for pauses and rewinds, and ten to recover from that damn elephant
I’m on the third watch now. Lots to grasp here. It’s a real interesting topic
I am glad to see you are back! The elephant in the room had me ducking.
I loved the elephant 😄. Very well researched. You put a lot of work into that
citing the hangover, electronic warfare and Otis... it happened again! When they take control it will remain clear that I was on their side😂
2 days later this gets even more relevant!
Expert interventions from guru Otis, as well.
Thank you for another exemplary video. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
I swear, even after reading the other comments... THE ELEPHANT GAG STILL SPOOKED ME. Great job. ;)
wow, lots there to understand! I’m going to have to watch it again.
my cousin made his living designing antennas. He probably thinks it’s old news.
Likely
Great vid. Complicated stuff and you did a good job explaining it. Looking forward to more on this one.
This channel never disappoints !
Top notch quality content !
There is an old (1985) but still good book on EW by Doug Richardson. Salamander books. Update: Title "an illustrated guide to the techniques and equipment of electronic warfare"
He later published a book on stealth in 2001. "Stealth Warplanes".
Thank you! I’m looking forward to the rest of the series 🥳
The first 20 minutes of your presentation reminded me of a course I had at university, EE 342 or 344 -- Digital Data Communications I, that I did very well in, having had interests in Control Theory and a great class/teacher of analysis in the frequency domain.
My grade-point average climbed dramatically over the final two years of undergraduate engineering courses, much to my surprise and to my advisor's amazement. I struggled through the mathematics and physics during those first two years, but once I began to study practical EE, everything began to make sense
It was the year 1980 (+- a year or two), when I finally got to those upper division electrical engineering courses. I traveled the long road to get there. Live and learn.
I do hope youll have a follow-up to this introduction. Antenna length and structure is essential to maximizing S/N whether receiving or sending a signal. I'd be interested in learning how the integrated computing power of the F-35 and the hive manages signal ID. Much can be done between pulses. Also, how does the AESA act in the system, can the "sensors" be optimized to improve signal quality via clever engineering/software tricks that tune these components to discriminate between the many hopping radar techniques used by the bad guys.
Many more questions. i hope to learn more... Merci, Monsieur.
I have already several videos about the F-35 internals and AESA radars, if you go to the channel and look a while back.
@@Millennium7HistoryTech I've seen the most of them. I don't catch everything, but many. What I enjoyed here was, well, constructed more like the EE courses I studied years ago, and it appeared that you beginning to describe a systems model of the system, beginning with this introduction to signal processing.
Perhaps it's my own bias, but for me, the pieces began to connect when beginning from this perspective.
Anyway, I'll be looking forward to the next piece, and thank you.
I was also looking at the time count of the video and roughly 3/5 of the video dealt with basic physics until we actually started with EW.
However, I do understand that you need to start with these basics in order to understand the rest.
That's why I consider the first part of the video to be an investment, also for further videos.
Please keep posting. 🙏
@@rasraeb1102 Thank you. If you're talking to me, you're very kind. I do enjoy the Millennium 7 videos.
Wow, thanks so much for covering such a fascinating and so very rarely explained topic. Most interesting video I’ve seen on CZcams in a long while 👍
Excellent video as always
A perfect example is an USB RTL receiver. I even managed to have my own TCAS display seating in the plane last row and ACARS receiver with proper software. Anything below 1Ghz can be analized. Great video, elephantastic.
Very informative! It's really difficult to find this kind of information in a way that isn't too technical for the average person and you do a very good job at explaining it. Looking forward to see more of it!
I’ve watched him for years now and he teaches so much in an easy format.
Would love to see more on EW
This is easily the best video on this subject I have ever seen.
Finally someone who GETS IT :). Thank you millennium 7 again :)
I am already worse than useless when it comes to understanding electricity. All of this is arcane knowledge that I can never hope to fully comprehend.
Still a very concise yet thorough EW 101 lecture. Excellent work.
well done!
not simple to simplify...you pulled it off very well.
very good job on video production as well.
The Elephant bit was funny 😄
I’m really looking forward to this series. I can’t imagine where else I could go to get this information. 🙏
Just noticed...Congrats on 100k 👍
THANK YOU!!! Been asking for this for awhile!!
electromagnetique waves and good vibrations !!!
Finally...
The video that puts shiny aviation equipment into operational context: the *'Friction'* of warfare.
Looking forward to the rest of the series. It would be nice to see a deeper treatment of scan pattern analysis and de-interleaving techniques.
Excellent video, thank you. Great groundwork to help understand the more complex issues to come.
Thank you kind sir with a cool tie 🙏 this is the most comprehensive video I've watched on this topic.
Nice explanation. Mostly correct. I think one item that is neglected is the directional parameter for the receiver antenna. One receiver and one antenna may "stare" in one direction continuously, and cover a lot of spectrum all the time. That comes to 2 dimensions, one for frequency and one for time. But then in an environment like the Black Sea, it may be important to also "stare" in all the directions over the surface of the sea - 360 degrees. So we add a 3rd dimension for azimuth direction. If we also want to cover airborne signals, we might also need to cover elevations too - another dimension gets added and we are up to 4 dimensions. But it does not end there. We might also want to include polarization. This would be an additional dimension. When you think about the problem of signal detection, it gets quite complex. We did not even consider various spread spectrum technologies that distribute signals across time, frequency, space, and polarization, in order to avoid hostile detection, or jamming.
9:01 I'm subscribed to your channel and saw it listed as a bullet point in the opening slide, and yet it still got me!
Damn your eyes, sir! *✊🏻* 😆
Wow man, nice! I have been waiting for this since you've asked the viewers if we wanted you to cover this topic. Nice introduction to the topic and can't wait for the continuation. I hope you are doing well health wise, take care.
He is always in the room - you never know when you'll notice each other
10:27 Hah, those soda and sports drink bottles and the tablets tell me roughly how recent this footage is, but those keyboards and the Microsoft mouse speak another tale. :D
Awesome video and great topic! Love to hear more on this 😊….adding the ‘girls’ was nice too LOL
I agree completely when you mention other CZcams videos. They always delve into the topic through a historical lens and the analysis is narrow and shallow. They neglect to tell how, why and most importantly nitty gritty math and science behind the technology, even when talking about modern systems in which the science is THE most important thing to talk about. When looking for well made military oriented video with a high production value from the biggest channels on CZcams, you are more likely to find a video that is, in all intents and purposes, a history lecture rather than a science video. Don't get me wrong, I do not dislike those videos but most videos I have seen, with a few exceptions, is at least 60% historical exposition. But alas, those are the videos that get all of the reaction videos because history is more easy to digest and understand in a short video than science. I've been trying to recommend your channel for reaction videos from other people on CZcams because this is the information we need to better understand the MODERN battlefield which has evolved since the romanticized battlefields of WW2 and even Desert Storm which happened before I was even born over 30 years ago.
In WW2 and ongoing, the signal intelligence took mainly two forms. The first was an intercept of a message which could possibly be decoded. The second was just monitoring the origin and volume of traffic in an area. A lot can be learned just from considering this traffic data. It was one of the reasons a dummy army was set up prior to D-day with a very active radio scheme. The convenience of radio communications was a big window into enemy operations. Phone lines were more problematic.
Fantastic to see detailed analysis on this topic, lots of great insight into this critical but often overlooked topic! Even with no technical background, it is great to see the level of detail you go into, bravo!
I always look forward to your videos.
So many good sumations of important aspects of modern air warfare doctrines and technologies.
Know that we all appreciate your what must be hard work
Best youtube channel. Good health and long life to you my friend.
I spent 20 years maintaining ECM systems for the USAF. anything you can find is probably 10-20 years out of date as a minimum. Stuff I worked on before i retired in 1992 have not shown up on the internet yet. Even one system I worked on in 1971 in Vietnam is not public yet.
True, it’s a problem for these videos but there are books of academic origin that help
Great stuff as usual, keep up the great work
Just fascinating. Enjoy the way the material is presented and that I understand it.
Otis and Alfie: Dynamic duo!
Wow great video. these things get very complex very quickly
Great lesson!
Term GAIN can be defined as gain in signal to noise ratio. The signal itself can be attenuated, but makes it esier to isolate signal from noise in spectrum.
Great video. I think those British aircraft were mainly doing racetracks over Romania according to flightradar 24
Excellent video! 🐘
Good construction Thanks.
I loved this, thank you! subbed etc so no future vids slip under my radar.
What’s gray and really loud? A yell-ephant.
PUNishing us again?
Thats no elephant thats a woolly mammoth 🦣👀
Fantastic.
Thank you, Gus. Interesting video.
incredible video with insanely interesting content once again !
i missed my daily train because of it 😂
am pretty sure the elephant jumpscare took 6 years out of my life expectancy lmao
Very cool
Epic elephant Entry ❤
I remember learning some of that stuff when i was assigned in the EW division in the army. But most of my time there i was simply listening to friendly comms for protocol breaches and man... half the army would get court martialed with all the breaches on a daily basis if any of us decided to send just one tape to HQ instead of reporting that all is well. One guy even turned the radio on his outpost in a radio station, broadcasting songs and talking about sports, that one we couldn't cover up cause HQ got the broadcast too.
I have been expecting this
very interesting ! :)
Aww! I quit my job before you told me not to! 😂
Thanks 👍😊
Awesome....as always. Can you plz make a video on datalink and software defined radio. And the elephant......🤯🤯😱🤪
Thanks for fixing this! ;)
Have you ever considered installing a radar antenna at the back of the vacuum cleaner? Or never mind. Just get a cat.
Never forget the story behind "99 luftbalons"
Thanks!
Thank you!
thanks
Also satellites, ships, embassies, sea cables, tech companies
It will be great to have specific video talking about this. Most sources I can find (with some exceptions), are at best from early Cold War. After 2nd half of the 60's most of it is becoming "still classified". Or at least hard to find.
That is something I address in the video
@@Millennium7HistoryTech That's true. I commented, because I hoped it would help with engagement (more people need to see this), but I phrased it badly - I knew that this video (and hopefully series) will be great, so I thrown in some criticisms of other sources on web and what I knew your video will be.
I did write "criticism" in my other comment. I hope it is constructive - it was meant as such.
Honestly this a problem with like videos on cybersecurity as well. Im convinced that most ytbers have no idea what they're talking about so they simply don't explain the actual concept and only ancillary effects of the technology. Or numbers and dates like you say.
Never stop with that elephant hahahahaha
Olala, you are liking every comment❤ Good job, Good Sir.
i was offered EW when joining the army 20+ years ago, im kinda bummed out i wasn't able to actually get into it (i was medically discharged fairly early on. yay for ultra rare conditions).
I have a friend now who did this for a while in the air force and other civilian government rolls, it amazing seeing his man cave and some of the toy projects he is getting up to, its amazing to see what a $10 Arduino board and the right radio gear can do, he has set up a system that's 100mw, gps, powered by RF if its near something like wifi or just a small battery that's meshed and can transmit and receive over 10,000 KM if on 4meg or vhf over about 5/ 10 km.
its can RT/TX small text messages with time stamps and gps location, very handy for locating that lost puppy or something lol
Similar gear when you know the someone has arrived because basic signal tracking/ detection that's received from their phone.
so for example in a large crowd at a political event these things would be scattered everywhere could locate and ID a person/ device and map and triangulate its location using their phone / watch / car with sim card wifi Bluetooth etc
Allow me to point out, that one doesn´t wear a matching tie and pocket-square in men´s fashion. Great video as usual though.
You should make Physics lessons for High school and Uni. Would help a lot
Hi Gus. I think it is time for a preliminary analysis on the Turkish Kaan fighter jet.
We will go to Turkey this year, for sure.
Millennium 7, love your videos, but please, when you flash some text on the screen, leave it on-screen long enough for a person read or to hit pause without needing to rewind.
Guess my heart is ok. Jump scare!
I wish I was knowledgeable enough to understand exactly what you were saying but I’m still able to enjoy what you’re talking about if you can understand what I’m saying. What type of work do you do?
I'll be sending you the bill, 🐘/ 😱 caused me to drop a full chocolate digestive into my Mug tea 😉 🤣😂🤣
The electronic warfare industry... yeah, right, in my dreams 😅 I only had two courses on communication subject, tho I really enjoyed the syllabus, I only managed to score just high enough to pass the exams... that stuff takes serious computational prowess... I'm good, but not that good...
That’s what happened to the AT&T network
Grazie.
Grazie a te
Once you get on it, you can't get Offutt.
Wtf is up with that elephant. I was listening to this guy trying to sleep when the freaking elephant emerged from nothing!
Magnetrons can help protect aganist drones.
Love your videos, but watching late at night that elephant made me jump out of my skin!