Shadowy New Electronic Warfare System Has Been Installed On U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Ships
The mysterious modular system with a peculiar past is designated AN/SLQ-59 and has been quietly deployed on Asia-based U.S. surface combatants.
By Tyler RogowayAugust 30, 2019
The Department Of Defense's supposed "pivot to the Pacific" began nearly a decade ago. Since then, the threats that drove it have evolved, diversified, and spread. This expanded strategic focus has been redefined geographically to include the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a vast territory renamed the Indo-Pacific in Pentagon parlance. With China, Russia, and North Korea all rising in terms of the threat they pose to American interests in this increasingly volatile region, advanced and highly tailored capabilities are being rapidly fielded to counter them. One such system is a major yet nearly unacknowledged addition to the existing electronic warfare defensive suites installed aboard America's fighting ships forward-deployed to the 7th Fleet's vast area of responsibility.
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