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Israel's New Scorpius Electronic Warfare System, a better version of Indian KALI?

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Israel's New Scorpius Electronic Warfare System, a better version of Indian KALI?
COURTESY OF ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES. Illustration of Israel's Scorpius electronic warfare system, the Scorpius.


Israel has presented Scorpius, a new electronic warfare device whose developer, Israel Aerospace Industries, claims will revolutionise electronic warfare.

When asked about the system's moniker, Gideon Fustick, Marketing VP EW Group at IAI, explained that it is intended to communicate "the idea of a benign item with a really sharp sting."

"We refer to this as'soft protection.' It is a direct-fire offensive weapon that does not launch missiles. This is not a kill-or-be-killed method "I was informed by Fustick. "However, it is extremely effective in engaging and disabling adversarial systems."

Here are three reasons why IAI believes this new system is unique.

'A new era of electronic warfare.'

"As a result, an increasing amount of combat activity is occurring in the electromagnetic domain," Fustick explained. "Planes, missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles all use electromagnetic magnetic fields to sense their surroundings, navigate, and communicate."

"The enemy is attempting to do all of these things via the electromagnetic domain," he explained. "We are also attempting to make use of them. And each side is attempting to deny the other side access to the electromagnetic domain."

He noted that this region is rapidly developing into its own battlefield.

Effective electromagnetic warfare in the present day necessitates the ability to detect and counter a variety of threats coming from all angles.

Unlike previous systems, which Fustick describes as "inherently limited," the Scorpius employs active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology to scan the entire sky and transmit narrowly targeted beams – "at any wavelength, any frequency, and any direction against specific targets without interfering with anyone else" – that disrupt enemy electronic sensors, data communications, navigation, and radar.

"It is the first system capable of detecting anything in the sky and simultaneously addressing several targets in different directions and at different frequencies," he explained.

'An electronic warfare revolution.'

While previous EW systems were capable of neutralising a single or a few targets, the Scorpius is capable of eliminating everything in the sky and engaging many targets simultaneously.

"That represents a significant milestone in electronic warfare," Fustick stated.

Prior to the development of such tiny beams, operators of EW systems faced a choice between two choices. They could either use a tiny beam to search the sky for a target, which is extremely difficult to perform, or they could use a broader beam.

"If you use the larger beam, you will absolutely hit your target, but you will also hit a lot of other stuff, including friendly forces," Fustick explained.

Scorpius's operator achieves "broad effect with minimal collateral interference" by combining a wide beam to scan for potential dangers in all directions with tiny beams to target such threats.

"This, we believe, is the revolution. It is the electronic warfare of the future "As Fustick stated.

Illustration of Israel Aerospace's land-based Scorpius G electronic warfare system. IMAGE CREDIT TO ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES



The ground-based variant of the system, the Scorpius G, is meant to provide comprehensive 360-degree coverage of a battle arena against a range of threats. As a result, Fustick explained, the system "becomes more than a tool for eliminating a single target; it also establishes an electronic shield of defence over an entire territory."

"That is something that prior electronic warfare equipment simply could not accomplish," he added. "Thus, it is not just about new capacities. This is an entirely new product category."

There is no charge for activation.

There are obvious advantages for system operators. The Scorpius' ability to disable objects such as drones merely by targeting them with narrow beams eliminates the need for missiles or other expensive ammunition.

"One of the advantages of electronic or soft defence systems is the near-zero cost of activation," Fustick explained. "You never run out of ammunition, and there is never any question of 'should I engage or do I avoid that particular threat.'"

The Israeli Air Force recently demonstrated the new system's training model, the Scorpius-T, during the country's largest multinational Blue Flag exercise in history. The Scorpius T is capable of simulating newer threats to fifth-generation aircraft.

"It is the only training system capable of engaging fifth-generation aircraft and was highly visible and successful during the Blue Flag exercise," Fustick explained.

Scorpius systems have been exported to "a number of well-known customers."

Fustick ended by stating that this novel technology has a "very broad spectrum of potential applications."

Israel Aerospace Industries developed the Scorpius SP (self-protection) electronic warfare pod for combat aircraft. COURTESY OF ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES.


These include the Scorpius SP, a self-protection pod for combat aircraft, and the Scorpius SJ, a standoff jammer.

The Scorpius N naval variant is geared for defending ships against threats like as drones and over-the-horizon anti-ship cruise missiles and, like its land-based cousin, can create massive amounts of extremely powerful beams.

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