Serving as a continuation of the bestselling book EW 101: A First Course in Electronic Warfare, this new volume is a second installment of popular tutorials featured in the Journal of Electronic Defense. Without delving into complex mathematics, this book gives engineers, defense contractors, managers, and government procurers a basic working knowledge of the technologies deployed in today's electronic warfare (EW) systems.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.

Table of contents; Preface xv; 1 Introduction 1; 1.1 Generalities About EW 3; 1.2 Information Warfare 5; 1.3 How to Understand Electronic Warfare 6; 2 Threats 9; 2.1 Some Definitions 9; 2.2 Frequency Ranges 13; 2.3 Threat Guidance Approaches 15; 2.4 Scan Characteristics of Threat Radars 17; 2.5 Modulation Characteristics of Threat Radars 22; 2.6 Communication Signal Threats 26; 3 Radar Characteristics 33; 3.1 The Radar Function 33; 3.2 Radar Range Equation 36; 3.3 Detection Range Versus Detectability Range 42; 3.4 Radar Modulation 48; 3.5 Pulse Modulation 48. 3.6 CW and Pulse Doppler Radars 543.7 Moving Target Indicator Radars 58; 3.8 Synthetic Aperture Radars 63; 3.9 Low Probability of Intercept Radars 67; 4 Infrared and Electro-Optical Considerations in Electronic Warfare 77; 4.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 77; 4.2 IR Guided Missiles 82; 4.3 IR Line Scanners 87; 4.4 Infrared Imagery 90; 4.5 Night-Vision Devices 94; 4.6 Laser Target Designation 98; 4.7 Infrared Countermeasures 101; 5 EW.