Israel's Advance Electronic Warfare Air defense System

Israel has recently unveiled a new electronic warfare system called Scorpius that its manufacturer, Israel Aerospace Industries, says has capabilities that will revolutionize electronic warfare.

Asked about the namesake of this system, Gideon Fustick, Marketing VP EW Group at IAI, said it intends to convey "the sense of an innocuous thing that actually has a very powerful sting."

"We call it ‘soft protection.’ It's an offensive weapon that doesn't send out missiles. It's not a hard-kill system," Fustick told me. "And yet it is very effective in engaging and disabling enemy systems."

Here’s why IAI thinks this new system is in a league of its own.

"More and more of the activity in warfare is going into the electromagnetic domain," Fustick said. "Planes, missiles, UAVs are all using electromagnetic magnetic means, to sense the environment, to navigate, and to communicate."

"The enemy is trying to use the electromagnetic domain for all these activities," he said. "We are also trying to use them. And we're each trying to deny the other side from the use of the electromagnetic domain."

He added that this domain is quickly becoming a battlefield in its own right.

Effective modern electromagnetic warfare requires the know-how to detect and counter various threats coming from all directions.