NATO Allied navies practice electromagnetic operations


NATO Allies tested their ability to evade and counter anti-ship missiles using electromagnetic tactics during NEMO 19.

Thirteen NATO Allies gathered to test their ability to counter and evade anti-ship cruise missiles during the Naval Electro Magnetic Operations – or “NEMO” – trials. NEMO 19 pitted Allied vessels, including Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), against a spectrum of ground and air-based anti-ship missile threats. The trials allowed naval commanders to experiment with new tactics, while allowing Allied scientists to gather crucial data about their ships’ vulnerabilities. Footage includes shots of the US Navy destroyer USS Gridley responding to simulated cruise missile attacks, including a damage control drill. Interviews: US Navy Rear Admiral Edward Cashman, Commander SNMG1; UK Royal Navy Lieutenant Kieran Lewis; UK Royal Navy scientist Dr Francis Talbot.

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Really there’s two main objectives to the new motor house, one, it’s an opportunity to do some science and technology work, to collect data, to do some analysis, to learn more about our ships, the vulnerabilities and the capabilities of the ships, evolving electromagnetic acquirement, the second real part of EMO is to do some testing evaluation of the current tactics, techniques and procedures for countering anti ship cruise missiles, to do task group level work, evaluating the current tactics, and evaluating their effectiveness, providing feedback to continue to evolve those processes. We also have to consider their ability to target, and our ability to remain untargeted at those sort of distances, so that requires a comprehensive approach across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, to manage what we’re emitting, and what we’re giving away, and our ability to defend ourselves.

So, what we’re looking at on shore is emulating the threat, and also having a look at what the enemy might see of the vessels involved, so we’re measuring what the ships might look like to a radar, or a camera system through various means. There’s a couple of different ways of doing it, where we might use and reuse old bits of missiles, then plug them into other systems, to create the response that we need, or we might build something from scratch using an existing radar system, and then start to use some new technologies which allows us some flexibility on what we can simulate.

This is a very valuable opportunity to gather real data on real ships, firing real decoys, and also with our NATO colleagues here, with different systems, we’re gathering slightly different data from different locations at different frequencies and we compare all that data, and get lots of information from it.

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