EW Europe 2018: COMINT requirements continue to morph
With focus shifting to state-based threats, communications intelligence (COMINT) is seeing renewed interest as nations look to once again modernise their inventories to suit this niche, but vital, capability.
COMINT is a highly-specialised discipline that allows a force to intercept and decrypt communication signals – including radios, SATCOM and cellular communications – while also incorporating aspects of processing and analysis.
Today’s COMINT analysts are also interested in the type of signal (frequency hopping characteristics, waveform developments etc.) being transmitted, its location and how to potentially interrupt – or jam – that signal as part of disruption and deception tactics across
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