(Forbes) Paul Iddon - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled a revolutionary electronic warfare (EW) system called Scorpius on Thursday. Gideon Fustick, Marketing VP EW Group at IAI, said the Scorpius "is very effective in engaging and disabling enemy systems." "Planes, missiles, UAVs are all using electromagnetic means to sense the environment, to navigate, and to communicate." Scorpius uses active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology to scan the entire sky and can send narrowly targeted beams - "at any wavelength, any frequency, any direction against specific targets without interfering with anybody else" - that disrupt enemy electronic sensors, data communications, navigation and radar. "It's the first system that can really detect anything in the sky and address multiple targets in different directions and different frequencies simultaneously," he said. The ground version of the system, the Scorpius G, "creates an electronic umbrella of defense over a whole region." "One of the advantages about electronic or soft defense systems is that the price per activation is virtually zero," Fustick said. "You don't run out of ammunition."
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