Army Test Flies Unmanned Airborne EW Attack System; Clay Ogden Comments

The U.S. Army has completed a series of flight tests onan unmanned airborne electronic attack platform in order to assess its technical capability to deploy jammer to another aerial system.

The Army conducted the testing for the Gray Eagle unmanned system-fixed Networked Electronic Warfare Remotely Operated from June 2 to June 19 within The Great Salt Lake Desert at Dugway Proving Ground Utah, the Army said July 10.

“This demonstrated the viability of a Gray Eagle based high-powered jamming capability to support the Army’s EW (electronic warfare) counter-communications and broadcasting EW requirements in the future,” said Clay Ogden, an expert for airborne electronic attack programs for the Army’s electronic warfare division.

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