Inflatable Decoys Paired With Faked Radio Signals Used To Bait Artillery In Recent Army Exercise
New electronic warfare capabilities are a critical part of the Army's modernization plans, but the service still has much work to do.
Joseph Trevithick
Published Apr 3, 2025 4:37 PM EDT
A U.S. Army unit used a combination of radio frequency emitters pumping out false signals and inflatable decoy artillery pieces to lure their opponents into attacking and revealing their positions in an exercise earlier this year.
AU.S. Army unit used a combination of radio frequency emitters pumping out false signals and inflatable decoy artillery pieces to lure their opponents into attacking and revealing their positions in an exercise earlier this year. This underscores the importance of the service’s efforts to introduce new and improved electronic warfare capabilities, as well as expand its ability to defend against enemy forces doing the same, as part of its larger modernization efforts.
Col. Josh Glonek, head of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, talked about using the emitters and decoys, as well as other developments, with Defense One‘s Lauren Williams last week. The interview was streamed virtually as part of the outlet’s State of Defense 2025: Army virtual conference. 3/10th Mountain, which wrapped up a deployment to multiple locations in Europe in March, is one of three brigades the Army is using as testbeds for its Transforming in Contact modernization initiative.
Members of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division train in Germany in January 2025. US Army
“So it is something that we as an Army are trying to adapt to. as well, to learn more about, to employ more electronic warfare systems down at the brigade level and below,” Glonek said. “We employed these during our JMRC rotation, where we had electronic warfare teams that were out detecting the enemy. But we also used electronic warfare to help deceive the OPFOR that we fought against.”
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