Bet you haven’t heard of them

Bet you haven’t heard of them

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IAF

Growing threats to Israel from both neighboring countries and those further off, have brought the IAF to enhance and strengthen its electronic warfare capabilities. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is currently expanding the size of its electronic warfare unit. A new batch of recruits, the largest so far, have just completed the course qualifying them to enter the unit.

The IAF’s Airborne Electronic Control Unit’s main mission is to blind the enemy by disrupting its radar and other systems. Another of the unit’s missions is to block communications between the enemy’s aircraft and control centers.

To achieve this close collaboration is needed between the unit’s air and ground teams, helping the IAF to ensure aerial superiority both in Israeli skies and the skies above enemy territories.

The IAF operates both ground and air EW systems. The air component is operated through the use of both manned and unmanned platforms, equipped with EW systems custom made by Israeli manufacturers to suit the nature of the threats precisely.

According to reports in the foreign press, the IAF destroyed in September 2007 a nuclear facility built by Syria with the assistance of North Korea. Foreign press reports claimed that Operation Orchard, aimed at destroying the secret facility in the Deir ez-Zor region, was carried out after the IAF succeeded in blinding all Syrian air defense radars.