The Navy Has Big Plans To Defend the Fleet From Missile Attacks

EW is back. 

Dave Majumdar [2]

U.S. Navy warships are getting a significant boost in electronic warfare capability that should help protect those vessels from missile attack. Engineers at the Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center – Crane Division are upgrading the AN/SLQ-32 electronic warfare (EW) system, which was originally introduced in the 1970s, to the current state of the art.

“The primary mission of the Surface EW System is Anti-Ship Missile Defense, which is all about the protection of the ships,” Bryan Fox, NSWC Crane’s AN/SLQ-32(V)6 In-Service Engineering Agent Manager, said in a statement [3]. “These installations take Electronic Warfare to the 21st Century. We are giving the Warfighter game-changing technologies so that current and future threats can be combated. This type of capability has not been seen in Surface EW in over three decades.”

According to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Navy established the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) in 2002 to incrementally upgrade the AN/SLQ-32(V). Over the years, the program has continued to field evermore-capable electronic warfare systems to defend the fleet against increasingly more capable threats such as new Russian and Chinese cruise missiles such as the P-800 Oniks or YJ-18.

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