Electronic Warfare: From the Battle of Tsushima to the Falklands and Lebanon Conflicts

The 'invisible war' began with the 20th century and has increasingly continued, in deep secrecy, between all the world's powers. This book traces its history from 1905 when the Tsarist navy was destroyed by the Japanese. During WW I, tele-communications was an important battlefield tool and a vital weapon in interception and jamming procedures but it was the arrival of radar with WWII which saw the first major advances. From 1945 onwards, activity in all fields of electornic warfare spread like wildfire. In the Korean and Vietnamese wars, the Arab/Israeli struggles, the Cuban missile crisis, the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, the Falklands Conflict and the Iraq/Iran war, the vlue of electronic warfare in measure, countermeasure and even countercountermeasures has been demonstrated again and again. Satellites form vital links in surveillance and data relay systems across the world and 'satellite-killers' are being actively developed. The author also presents a complete and absorbing panorama of research in and use of infra-red rays, the laser, satellites, radiation weapons and much more. He also discusses the peaceful applications and devices that have resulted from this research.