Electronic Warfare is composed of which three capabilities?

• A. Electronic Attack, Electronic Support, Electronic Protection
• B. Electronic Surveillance, Electronic Defense, Electronic Scanning
• C. Cyber Attack, Cyber Defense, Cyber Protection
• D. Electronic Navigation, Electronic Data, Electronic Shielding

Answer: (A)

Electronic Warfare centers on shaping the electromagnetic environment to help your forces while defending your own operations. The three capabilities that best capture this are Electronic Attack, Electronic Support, and Electronic Protection. Electronic Attack directly uses electromagnetic energy to disrupt, deny, or deceive the enemy’s use of the spectrum—think jamming, spoofing, or other countermeasures aimed at enemy sensors and communications. Electronic Support is about sensing and understanding the spectrum situation: detecting, identifying, and locating emitters to gain situational awareness and cue further EW actions. Electronic Protection focuses on keeping your own systems safe from EW effects and maintaining mission readiness through hardening, redundancy, and agile spectrum management. Other groupings mix terms that aren’t standard EW capabilities, such as cyber-focused operations or unrelated sensor terms, so they don’t fit the established framework.