MAJOR BATTLES INVOLVING

ELECTRONIC WARFARE
BY LT TRAN Y SON
1. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA
• 1904-1905
• The Russian Baltic Fleet was located in Tsushima by auxiliary cruiser Shinano Maru.
• The captain of the Russian warship, Orel, requested permission to disrupt the
Japanese communications link by attempting to transmit a stronger radio signal over
the Shinano Maru's signal hoping to distort the Japanese signal at the receiving end.
• Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky refused the advice and denied the Orel
permission to electronically jam the enemy, which in those circumstances might have
proved invaluable. The intelligence the Japanese gained ultimately led to the
decisive Battle of Tsushima.
• The Russian navy lost all their battleships and most of its cruisers and destroyers.
These staggering losses effectively ended the Russo-Japanese War in Japan's favor.
4,380 Russians were killed and 5,917 were captured, including two admirals, with a
further 1,862 interned..
2.BATTLE OF THE BEAMS

• During World War II, the Allies and Axis Powers both extensively used EW.
• Navigational radars had gained in use to vector bombers to their targets and back to
their home base. The first application of EW in WWII was to defeat those navigational
radars.
• Chaff was also introduced during WWII to confuse and defeat tracking radar
systems..
3. VIETNAM WAR

• Electronic warfare played a major role in many military operations during the 
Vietnam War.
• Aircraft on bombing runs and air-to-air missions often relied on EW to survive the
battle, although many were defeated by Vietnamese ECCM.
4. OPERATION OUTSIDE THE BOX

• AKA operation Orchard

• In 2007, an Israeli attack on a suspected Syrian nuclear used electronic warfare
systems to disrupt Syrian air defenses while Israeli jets crossed much of Syria,
bombed their targets, and returned to Israel undeterred.
•  Israeli EW systems deactivated all of Syria's air defense systems for the entire period
of the raid, infiltrating the country, bombing their target and escaping.
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