Israel shows off new electronic warfare system that uses BEAMS instead of missiles or bullets to go after enemy threats

 Israel shows off new electronic warfare system that uses BEAMS instead of missiles or bullets to go after enemy threats

• Israeli's state-run defense contractor announced a new family of electronic warfare systems on Thursday
• The Scorpius family of weapons sends out focused beams that interfere with electromagnetic spectrums
• It can disrupt the operation of various systems, including radar, sensors, navigation and data communications
• By using beams and not missiles or bullets, it can lower the cost of defense
  
  
  

• Israeli's state-run defense contractor, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), announced a new family of electronic warfare systems on Thursday, capable of detecting and disrupting different threats at the same time. 

  Known as the Scorpius family of weapons, this 'revolutionary' system does not send out missiles to disarm drones, ships, radar systems or other missiles, but rather it sends out focused beams that interfere with electromagnetic spectrums.

  It disrupts the operation of various systems, including radar, sensors, navigation and data communications.

• 'We call it 'soft protection.' It's an offensive weapon that doesn't send out missiles. It's not a hard-kill system,' IAI's Marketing VP EW Group Gideon Fustick said in an interview with Forbes.  

  'And yet it is very effective in engaging and disabling enemy systems.'

• With significantly greater receiver sensitivity and transmission power, the system can detect multiple threats from different types simultaneously and from further distances than in the past. 

  Fustick believes that more warfare will be in the electromagnetic realm, and with Scorpius, Israel is positioned well for the future. 

  'More and more of the activity in warfare is going into the electromagnetic domain,' Fustick added. 

  'Planes, missiles, UAVs are all using electromagnetic magnetic means, to sense the environment, to navigate, and to communicate.'  

  There are are five components as part of the Scorpius system, including Scorpius G, which is used for ground and Scorpius N, used for naval. 

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