Electronic Warfare
62 episodes
#5747: Jamming Drones: The Physics of the Wearable Skylock Kit
How does a vest-sized jammer take on frequency-hopping drones? The inverse-square law, spread spectrum, and why jamming reaches farther than detect...
#5671: Why Armies Still Fight With Paper Maps
Paper maps mean opposite things: prudence in Finland, a broken supply chain in Russia. Same artifact, opposite story.
#5293: Air Koryo and the ICAO Alignment Problem
What flying North Korea's flag carrier actually feels like — and why a cut-off state still shows up to ICAO meetings.
#5250: Building a Shortwave Monitoring Stack on Linux
What it actually takes to scan, capture, and crowdsource HF radio from a Linux box — and where automation hits a wall.
#5247: Why HF Radio Still Matters When Networks Fail
HF and shortwave are the same band — and it's the only comms path no host nation can switch off. Here's why it persists.
#5243: The Antenna on the Consulate Roof
When a host country cuts the water and the fiber, one thing still reaches London: the HF antenna bolted to the consulate roof.
#4803: How Digital Road Signs Talk to Cars
How roadside radios broadcast stop signs and traffic data directly to vehicles over 5.9 GHz.
#4470: The F-35 Export Dilemma: Trust, Tech, and Tethering
How the U.S. sells its most advanced stealth jet without handing adversaries the keys to defeat it.
#4454: Who Owns the Air? Wi-Fi Spectrum Rules Explained
Why your Wi-Fi channel changes, what DFS is, and how Israel, the US, and Europe regulate the air differently.
#4358: How Spy Hardware Engineers Actually Get Recruited
The hidden pipeline from soldering irons and DEF CON villages to covert listening devices.
#4267: The World's Most Dangerous Airline and Airspace
Yeti Airlines tops the fatal accident rate. But the real hazard may be the airspace it flies through.
#4051: What Combat Engineers Actually Do on the Ground
Mines, math, and nineteen-year-olds in armored bulldozers — the real job of military engineers.
#3622: How OSINT Spots Electronic Warfare
How hobbyists track GPS jamming, radar ghosts, and the hidden signals of modern conflict.
#3621: How Israel Rebuilds the EW Nervous System on American Jets
Why Israel rips out American EW suites and installs its own on nearly every fighter it flies.
#3176: Why Hilltops Still Win Modern Wars
Elevation isn't just about visibility — it's about radar horizons, electronic warfare, and ballistic physics.
#3162: Sovereign SATCOM: Inside the Military's Orbital Arms Race
Why the US, Russia, and China each build their own military satellite networks — and how WGS, Blagovest, and Tiantong compare.
#3158: How Consumer Drones Really Talk to Their Controllers
From DJI's OcuSync to military SATCOM and 4G LTE — how drone control links actually work and why they fail.
#2818: The Connector Built for War Zones
The chunky military connectors in control centers aren't USB. Here's what they are, and how to use them on a laptop.
#2678: How IMSI Catchers Actually Track Your Phone
How fake cell towers intercept your phone, from GSM flaws to 5G fixes. Separating spy-thriller hype from real engineering.
#2504: Fiber-Optic Drones: The Jam-Proof Threat Changing Warfare
How a $1,200 wire-guided drone evades electronic warfare and why the IDF is scrambling for countermeasures.
#2416: Ghost Murmur: Heartbeat Detection or Disinformation?
Did the CIA locate an airman by his heartbeat from 40 miles away? We examine the physics and the story.
#2362: Iran's ICBM Claim vs Anti-Tamper Tech Reality
Iran claims to have reverse-engineered US ICBMs—but the Jericho missile is Israeli. How do militaries safeguard downed drones and hardware from exp...
#2098: The Invisible War for the Radio Spectrum
Modern wars are won by controlling invisible waves, not just physical ground. Discover how electronic and cyber warfare merge to rewrite reality.
#2097: The Invisible Cloak: Frequency Hopping and Burst Transmission
Forget just encrypting data—learn why hopping frequencies and bursting signals are the real secrets to staying invisible and alive.