Electronic warfare (or EW) has very important applications in defense-based systems. These include communications intercept (COMINT) and jamming, radar countermeasures and counter-countermeasures, electronics intelligence (ELINT), and many other areas. But EW techniques also play an important commercial role in spectrum management.
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