12. Electronic Warfare protects our aircraft, ships and fighting vehicles from in-coming threats such as missiles by building an electronic shield around them. The shield denies enemy sensors and communications from performing their intended functions by frustrating, deceiving or jamming them. This is known, in Electronic Warfare jargon, as electronic countermeasures or ECM
Speech by DPM Tony Tan, at the Official Opening of DSO National Laboratories, Marina Hill, on Friday, 2 October 1998.
http://www.dso.org.sg/home/newsevents/newsevents_speeches.aspx2.Have u noticed we have many projects with our foreign ferns,but not EW.
It is a black art u cannot share with ur ferns.Minister Teo said when even he was a captain of a RSN ship,he was not allowed enter into a locked room of equipments,may be EW stuffs!
( Book "Defy Convention,by DSTA)
3.EW is very cost effective in attack and defense.The 3 men ETC,Electronic Testing Center,was established in 1972 and now called DSO.All works have
been and still are considered 'secret'.The first project is in EW.Why?
The 1967 Arab--Israel war gave a verd good lesson.They saw the vital role precision guided played in warfare.Small Egytian patrol boats were able to sink the larger Israel destoryer,the Elath,with Styx radar--guided anti--ship missiles.
Now u know why our RSN are equipped with weapons which u usually find in
larger naval ships in other countries.
RATING
4.From 1 to 10 while 1 is the best,I would rank our EW in 2.0.
START FROM A BOOK TO KNOW RADAR
5.U can see how the 3 wise men to learn radar by reading a book!
http://www.dso.org.sg/home/publications/comm/3-creation.pdfIt save u money to buy this DSO book.
Look for CREATING THE INVISIBLE SHIELD.
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Creating the Cutting EdgeDSO 30th Anniversary Commemorative Book,very alive,blood and tear,
learn from 1960's ,70's wars........
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