Telecommunication troops EloKa

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The telecommunications force EloKa is a branch of the Bundeswehr that is responsible for electronic warfare (EloKa). As part of the Cyber ​​and Information Space Command , the battalions provide electronic warfare to all military organizational areas of the Bundeswehr.

Insinuation and history

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces base was created in 2000. The previously separate EloKa units of the Army , Air Force and Navy were placed under the Strategic Reconnaissance Command in Rheinbach . The telecommunications regiments of the army also belonged to it, from which the EloKa battalions in the three corps emerged (the EloKa battalion 922 in Donauwörth was formerly the telecommunications battalion 220, later the telecommunications regiment 220). The EloKa 932 battalion in Frankenberg emerged from the 320 telecommunications regiment .

Until the realignment, each division had an EloKa company and each corps an EloKa battalion ; In this way, they ensured that the enemy's telecommunications traffic could be monitored or disrupted in the operational area. The tasks of the EloKa troops go back to the listening companies of the Wehrmacht intelligence force .

As part of the restructuring of the military organizational areas, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command and the units subordinate to it were removed from the armed forces base on July 1, 2017 and placed under the CIR Command.

Mission and organization

Mobile associations

The tasks of mobile EloKa associations can be divided into three areas:

Enlightenment ( EloUM )

Using highly sensitive receivers, suitable measuring methods are used to record, record and evaluate hostile radio emissions and determine their source in order to be able to initiate suitable countermeasures derived therefrom (e.g. use of the air force, artillery strike). The information obtained in this way can provide information about the strength, position and plans of the opponent.

Disturb ( EloGM )

By disrupting the opponent's signals , his ability to act is restricted. Disturbing encompasses a wide area that can range from displaying false targets to simulating device failure at the opponent's to overriding their process data processing. That is why electronic combat is of crucial importance in future war scenarios.

Protection of own communication ( EloSM )

The range of tasks of electronic combat also includes measures to prevent hostile EloKa associations from detecting or disrupting their own broadcasts. Although this task belongs to the EloKa, it is the task of all branches of service .

Inpatient associations

Fixed EloKa associations in all three branches of the armed forces conduct telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance, as a rule, over distances in the three-digit kilometer range.

The totality of these tasks as electronic battle (in the army) or electronic warfare ( English electronic warfare refers). Since their mission turns the EloKa troops into a kind of military intelligence service , they are also known as signal intelligence (SIGINT) in the USA .

Possible future tasks

In the future, the field of optronics will also be one of the tasks of the EloKa telecommunications team. For example, this includes the 3D - Laser representation (Target Designation) of targets has progressed, especially in the United States. Target designation is used, for example, to project apparent targets and thus to give the wrong targets or targets in the wrong number to hostile sensors . This can reduce enemy reconnaissance and weapon effects. Conversely, work is also being carried out on clearing up laser signals.

bases

The Bundeswehr was divided into three telecommunications areas, which were directly subordinate to the Strategic Reconnaissance Command.

Telecommunication area Fixed base Mobile battalion
FmBer 91 (Flensburg, dissolved) Fm AufklAbschn 911 ( Stadum ) (becomes EloKaBtl 911) EloKaBtl 912 ( Clausewitz barracks , Nienburg ad Weser)
FmBer 92 ( formerly FmBer 70, Trier, dissolved ) Fm AufklAbschn 921 (Berlin-Gatow) dissolved EloKaBtl 922 (Donauwörth) (dissolved)
FmBer 93 (formerly FmElo AufklBrig 94 ; Daun, dissolved) Telecommunications intelligence section 931 (formerly Fm AufklRgt 940 ; Daun; becomes EloKaBtl 931 ) EloKaBtl 932 ( Frankenberg (Eder) )

literature

  • Rudolf Grabau: The EloKa telecommunications unit of the army 1956-1990 , 4 volumes, Bonn 1995-1998.
  • Rudolf Grabau: The new beginning of the FmElo Aufkl and the EloKa of the Luftwaffe from 1956 and the concept on which the reconstruction is based , Much 2000.
  • Rudolf Grabau: radio surveillance and electronic warfare. Basics, technology and processes , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-440-05667-8 .
  • Rudolf Grabau: Technical Enlightenment. Sensors, systems and processes , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-440-06044-6 .
  • Konrad Guthardt, Heinz Dörnenburg: Electronic battle. Historical development with examples from eight decades , Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-7785-1155-6 .

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