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Which principle is not an EW tenet? Exploit, Control, Enhance, Command
Command
traditionally noise jammin techniques designed to block communication channels or radarscope presentations are applications of?
Denial
Delibera radiation, reradiation, alteration, suppression, absorption, denial, enhancement, or reflection of electromagnetic energy to mislead the enemy is called?
Deception
What is the most effective means of denying the enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum?
Destruction
What component of EW involves the use of electromagnetic, directed energy, or aniradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment?
EA
What EW component is used to locate intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy for threat recognition?
Electronic support
Electronic support data is not used to produce?
Ballistic Intelligence
Degrading or interfering with the enemies C2 capabilities is best described by?
Disruption
Using persision guided munitions, cruise missiles, or gunships is an example of?
Physical attack
What support system provides detection and control of low-level aircraft beyond coverage of ground based radars?
AWACS
Normal suppression of enemy air defense targets include radars for?
acquisition, antiaircraft artillery, Early warning/ ground controlled intercept, and SAM
What SAM system in North vietnam was devistating our strike forces?
SA-2
What division of EW involves weapons that use electromagnetic or directed energy as their primary destructive mechanism?
Electronic attack
What missile uses an electro optical or infrared imaging system to perform EA?
AGM-65
What type of electromagnetic jamming focuses all of the jamming energy in one particular area?
Directional
What type of jamming masks the presence and/or location of the strike force?
Standoff
What aircraft is used to jam communications of the enemies C2 network?
EC-130H
The steps taken to limit the incidental or accidental emission from electronic equipment is best described as?
Emission control
The processes and actions necessary to protect your equipment from the effects of an electromagnetic pulse produced by an atomic blast is best described as?
Electromagnetic hardening
any disturbance that interrupts, obstructs, degrades, or limits the effective performance of electronics or equipment is best described as?
Electromagnetic interference
The steps taken to locate the intentional and unintentional emissions from radar equipment is best described as?
Electronic support
What are EW reconnaissance crews called?
Ravens
The piece of equipment considered the heart of the electronic support system is?
Panoramic receiver
What ES equipment provides antenna scan type, scan rate, pulse recurrence frequency, pulse width, and pulse shape?
Pulse analyzer
What Air Force aircraft is used extensively to collect ELINT and COMINT data?
RC-135V/W
What major subdivision of SIGINT collects and processes data on radar?
ELINT
What ELINT equipment is used to determine location of emitters?
Direction finder
What is the correct order in which the four radars in an air defense network are used?
Early warning, Height finder, Acquisition, and Terminal defense
What type of information necessary for ground-controlled intercept is provided by HF radar?
Altitude
What type of radar in an air defense network is a lethal threat attacking aircraft?
Terminal defense
What three phases do SAM systems function to target attacking aircraft?
Acquisition, target tracking, and command guidance
What type of fuse is vulnerable to EW?
PRX
An important part of the C2 system is the?
Computer
The most effective C2 addition to the basic air defense system is?
AWACS aircraft
What addition to the C2 network extend the range of the air defense system?
Long range interceptors and AWACS
What type of radar in an air defense network obtains accurate data on the number of attacking aircraft and their track?
Terminal Defense
Which military frequency band designator denotes a frequency range higher than the others?
Golf
The angle of incidence required to to get a reflection back to the source is?
90°
What unit of a pulse radar provides very short pulse of DC voltage?
Modulator
What unit of a pulse radar provides the PRF of the radar?
Master timer
What radar display indicator displays range or velocity?
A scope
The radars ability to separate targets into individual returns that are close together is called?
resolution
A nonlinear device is any electronic device where the?
Current through the device is not proportional to the applied voltage
When performing heterodyning of two different RF signals, the output will be?
Sum, difference, and two original frequencies
A panoramic receiver displays detected emitters by?
frequency and amplitude
What feature of a panoramic receiver prevents display of on-board transmitters output?
receiver blanking
What mode of operation must the ALR-20 panoramic receiver be in to use the audio facility?
Manual
What range of coverage does the RWR's antennas provide?
360°
What component of the RWR processes the RF into video signal?
Receiver amplifier
What component of the RWR identifies radar signals?
Signal processor
The RWR soes not provide signal?
Amplitude
What component of the RWR selects the mode of operation?
Interface control unit
All of the following are techniques used by geolocation receivers except? Triangulation, Interferometry, Time of Arrival, Amplitude comparison
Amplitude comparison
Taking direction measurements from more then one source is?
Triangulation
The geolocation technique that involves using the phase difference to compute AOA is?
interferometry
What geolocation techniques involves solving for the distance that the emitter is away from the receiver?
Time of Arrival
What type of modulation create upper and lower sidebands?
Amplitude
The proccess where the carrier waves frequency and phase very according with the amplitude and frequency variations of a signal wave is called?
Frequency modulation
What determines the amount of deviation from the carrier wave?
Amplitude of the modulating signal
Which is not an advantage of noise modulation?
uniform in amplitude
The main consideration for effective electronic jamming is?
Sufficient power
The point where a radar's return is stronger than the jamming signal is called the?
crossover point
What type of noise jamming is tunable over a wide range of frequencies, but transmits a narrow bandwidth signal, concentrating all available power on a specific receiver?
Spot
What type of noise jamming uses continuos and simultaneous jamming of all frequencies within a wide range of frequencies?
Barrage
What advantage does deception jammer have over noise jammer?
requires less power
What type of deception jamming is related to time?
Range
What type of deception jamming makes use of the doppler shift?
Velocity
What type of deception jamming techniques is used at low altitude against missiles?
Terrain bounce
What chaff characteristic is a measure of the net reradiated energy from target to the illuminating radar?
radar cross section
What chaff characterisic is the length of time that chaff is at an effective altitude?
Persistence
What chaff dispensing tactics confuses radar operators with multiple false targets?
area saturation
What type of radar self protection chaff tactic used causes errors in the azimuth, elevation, and range tracking circuits?
Monopulse
Against what type of radar is self protection chaff tactics the least effective?
Doppler
What important tactic must be performed with flare deployment to effectively defeat infrared threats?
Maneuver
What affect does rise time have on a flare decoying an infrared missile?
Flare burns longer at high altitude, but takes much longer to reach peak intensity
What type of flare does not leave a visual signature such as smoke or flame?
Covert
What is not the primary mission of a decoy?
Counter infrared threats
What is the primary limitation of a towed decoy system?
Achieving 360° coverage
What type of decoy is designed to provide protection for the aircraft for a specific period?
Expendable active
What three properties are common to both visible and IR light?
Absorption, refection, and refraction
What is the emissivity factor of a theoretical black body?
1.0
What area of the aircraft will have least IR signature?
Skin
What type of IR seeker chops the IR at a rate determined by the reticle pattern?
Spin
What IR seeker generates a frequency modulated signal directly proportional to the amount of target displacement from the center of the seeker scan?
Conical
An effective IRCM tactic by using the natural environment is?
Maneuvering into the sun
What IRCM tactic is used to reduce an engine IR signature?
Introducing smoke into the engine exhaust
Using a modulated high intensity IR energy to break an IR missile's lock, is an example of?
Active infrared countermeasures
What feature of a MAWS relates to timelines?
Rapid identification of IR missile threats
What is one disadvantage to active MAWS?
Can be tracked by passive detection
The advantage of passive MAWS is?
The system is tuned to look for IR signature of missile 's exhaust plume
When a photon causes the release of another photon, it is called?
stimulated emission
Monochromatic, in relationship to laser theory, means single?
Frequency
What region of the frequency spectrum is Air Force aircraft laser sensors used?
Infrared
The relationship between a lasers coherency and bandwidth is?
inversely proportional
When white light is compared to laser light,
White light has a wider bandwidth than laser light
What laser device aids a visual acquisition of a target to be attacked?
Spot tracker
The laser danger zone for direct beam viewing extends over an extremely?
Long distance because the beam spreads so little
In what altitude range are contrails most likely be formed?
15,000 to 35,000 Ft.
How many components make up the PAS?
3
What technology does the PAS employ to detect contrail from the #3 engine exhaust?
Laser