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Course Name Tactical Battle Field Communication and Electronic Warfare
Course Code 25DT652
Program M. Tech. in Defence Technology
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit

Contents

Contact Hrs.

1.

Radiometry and power calculation, signature generation, atmospheric effects.

7

2.

Radar ES operational use, radar/ES detection battle, quiet radar, jamming techniques & strategies, jamming of SAR systems.

7

3.

Introduction to radar waveform interception, Technology and operational characteristics of electronic warfare, Signal processing statics & analysis, statistics & noise, analogue & digital signal processing.

8

4.

Decision theory- hypothesis testing, probabilities of false alarm and detection, Bayesian systems, error probability and bit error rate, receiver operating.

8

5.

UAV Payload/link Issues, cell phone issues, Intercept links, Frequency hopping and other LPI threats;Special techniques for jamming LPI signals

8

6.

Introduction to electronic counter measures and counter-counter measures.

7

Total

45

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

The main objective of the course is to provide knowledge to the students on the techniques for setting up intercept and jamming links for Electronic Warfare (EW) against ground to ground enemy communication signals, UAV command and data links, cell phone links and weapon control links, techniques for predicting intercept and jamming performance.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • Understand the nature of tactical battlefield communication
  • Calculate communication link performance
  • Calculate the requirements for interception of tactical communication
  • Calculate the requirements for emitter location, intercept and jamming of tactical comm. signals including weapon control link, UAV links, Cell phone links.
  • Use various tools to perform electronic warfare calculations

Text Books / References

References / Suggested Books:

  1. “Tactical Battlefield Communications Electronic Warfare”, by David Adamy 2008 2. “Military Communications in the Future Battlefield”, by Marko Suojanen.
  2. “Electronic Warfare for the Digitized Battlefield”, by Michael Frater, Michael Ryan.
  3. Literature / books suggested by respective course Lecturers.

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