Just curious, But sense were most likely gonna get ECM and jammers relatively soon. What would be the earliest forms of ecm/Jammers we could get? Would it be on naval ships, Aircraft, tanks or infantry?
And To add more flavor, What would be the strongest jammers we could get?
ELL-8251SB/SKY SHIELD (latter also available for the ef2k) are the strongest we can get currently, powerful enough to cripple basically all ground radars in the game outside 10-15km
Earliest would be one on the ships, as they used ECM since WW2.
some of the earlier ones for air craft are already in the game on the mig-21s (sps 141), theyre just used for their counter measures though and not ecm
There is also the elephant in the room known as Adolf Tolkachev. He was a Soviet scientist who worked at the Phazotron, the Soviet Radar Bureau. He sold just about all the data on the radar of MiG 29, 35, SU27, and some SAMs to the CIA. This would mean that NATO aircraft during the 1980s and 90s specifically had their jammers tuned to these and were more effective
One of the oldest I can think of is the Red Shrimp fitted to the Avro Vulcan and Victor in 1953. Though did go onto use others such as the AN/ALQ-101 during the Falklands.
Gunjob has a good list of British aircraft that would see EW in-game
As for the Strongest… Typhoon with CAPTOR-E would certainly have to be a contender when that is hopefully added soon™
probably the strongest jamming system we could get while still retaining some capability for other roles
