Russia's expansion of GPS spoofing capabilities around Kaliningrad represents a major escalation in the militarization of the electromagnetic environment in Europe and poses growing risks to civil aviation safety.
Robert Lansing Institute
The detonation of a Russian nuclear warhead in the high traffic zones of low Earth orbit would shoot out a massive electromagnetic pulse that could destroy vast swaths of satellites, and potentially prove lethal to astronauts aboard the International Space Station or the Chinese space station.
Forbes
Made on a test range can not use hopes and dreams to survive a contested electromagnetic environment. / Ukraine
Yahoo News
There are two companies that are not using lasers, though: First Light Fusion, which proposes using pistons, and Pacific Fusion, which plans to use electromagnetic pulses instead of lasers.
TechCrunch
The FY2026 NDAA already includes $44.27 million for Cognitive Electromagnetic Warfare under Air Force R&D - but without doctrinal coherence, the money risks being spent without strategic direction.
VineSight
A new type of electromagnetic thruster has successfully completed an early test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, offering a glimpse of how astronauts could one day travel to Mars.
ScienceDaily
In a peer conflict, the electromagnetic spectrum will be severely degraded by adversary jamming, and any active RF emission from a U.S. drone or ground control station will serve as a highly visible beacon for adversary anti-radiation missiles and counter-battery artillery fire.
Ronin's Grips Analytics
The Russian deployment of EW in Ukraine has been characterized as the densest electromagnetic environment in modern military history, exposing the vulnerabilities of systems reliant on persistent connectivity.
Ronin's Grips Analytics
Elon Musk has recently discussed a future where electromagnetic catapults on the moon could launch 500-1,000 terawatts of AI data centers per year.
Space
The explicit GPS-denied and frequency-hopping requirements signal that the Marine Corps has already war-gamed electronic warfare countermeasures into the design baseline, suggesting U.S. planners do not expect uncontested electromagnetic spectrum access.
Drone Warfare
The electromagnetic weapon might be a jammer payload to help an SRBM attack penetrate missile defences, but might also refer to a ground-based jammer or radiofrequency weapon to defend against drones such as the drone-jamming rifle the North Koreans have depicted using in the Ukraine war.
38 North
From a threat perspective, the Space Force argues that without investments in key technologies and sustained Space Force growth, the U.S. could face persistent electromagnetic and cyber attacks as well as covert interference in orbit.
Air & Space Forces Magazine
With the increasing threat from Ukrainian drones, especially the deadly FPV models, the AFRF has focused on enhancing electromagnetic protection at the company level.
sUAS News
Counter-measures will probably prioritize electronic warfare and GPS spoofing, given that Ukrainian drone operations have historically depended on navigational precision in contested electromagnetic environments.
Drone Warfare
Future algorithmic warfare will require NATO to treat electromagnetic spectrum operations as a distinct layer of multidomain operations to protect its strategic initiative and command-and-control superiority.
Atlantic Council
