Cognitive Electronic Warfare: A New Component in Modern Warfare

With the increasing complexity of the electromagnetic environment and the intelligent development of radars, electronic jamming operations, or in other words, electronic warfare for jamming, unlike radar, urgently need to improve their ability to detect threat targets and decide on the type of jamming. Today, programmable, digital radio frequency equipment, known as software-defined radio, is on the rise. Accordingly, radars can quickly change the waveform and create a unique identity and characteristic. As a result, in dense and competitive frequency environments, the work of enemy transmitters to locate, identify, block, and confuse becomes more and more difficult. On the other hand, the breadth and diversity of attacks in the electromagnetic domain, with the advancement of radars and cognitive tools, has presented traditional electronic warfare systems with a fundamental challenge.The occurrence of new and unknown attacks has made traditional electronic warfare systems ineffective in dealing with these attacks. In this article, which was compiled using a descriptive-analytical method, the researcher seeks to answer the question of to what extent cognitive electronic warfare can identify and respond to new and unknown attacks? The research findings indicate that cognitive electronic warfare, by combining traditional methods and artificial intelligence in the form of a complete and coherent system, can identify new and unknown attacks and adopt the appropriate response on the battlefield.