Soviet Radio Electronic Combat and the Blinded Bomber
A British Ministry of Defence analysis of Soviet jamming, hidden for decades, maps the struggle to ensure nuclear missiles could actually find their targets.
By Roy Castellano ·
Electronic Warfare
Sierra Class Masts and the Secret Calculation of Soviet Nuclear Power
For decades, the UK Ministry of Defence hid its analysis of Soviet submarine masts, using radar signatures to estimate the reactor outputs that powered the Cold War's deadliest hulls.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Soviet ECM HIP Helicopters and the Nuclear Blind Spot
The record remained hidden for decades, placing the Soviet Union's electronic warfare assets in the hands of nuclear intelligence specialists whose names are still withheld.
By Roy Castellano ·
Soviet Naval Manual and the CIA's Map for Sabotage
Kept secret for 31 years until its 2017 release, the manual's source remains blacked out while the CIA dissected the automated nerves of the Red Fleet.
By Vera Kessler ·
Missing Pages and the Soviet War for the Spectrum
Details on Soviet ground-based electronic warfare were tracked by British intelligence, but the strategic analysis of the SS-NX-5 missile remains missing at transfer.
By Miriam Adler ·
Soviet Jammers and the Nuclear Delivery Gap
A gap in the UK's technical reviews hides the failure of electronic countermeasures and a missing file that suggests a purge of nuclear delivery secrets.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Remote Bombs in Britain and the Division of Atomic Energy Intelligence
Civilian lives were risked by electronic triggers that the Ministry of Defence tracked through a chain of scientific intelligence agencies, with the details kept secret for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Yanakiyev and the Secret Soviet Plan to Blind the Sixth Fleet
Kept secret for 43 years, an internal Warsaw Pact blueprint for naval surveillance exposes the technical gaps the Soviets feared would let NATO slip through.
By Marcus Boone ·
The Missing Digest and the Soviet Nuclear Signature
Kept secret and then vanished during transfer, a critical intelligence synthesis on Soviet nuclear capabilities remains absent from the UK archives, masking the sources of the Crown's most sensitive signals.
By Eleanor Voss ·
The 1st Marine Division and the Silence of the Cancelled Broadcasts
For decades, the US Army tracked the voices of its enemies, but the record of what they failed to hear—marked as 'unintelligible' or 'no signal'—stayed buried in the files of the Signal Corps.
By Miriam Adler ·
Side Globe and the Masking of the Soviet Nuclear Fleet
Kept secret in the UK National Archives, a technical assessment of Soviet jamming gear shows how the Kremlin blinded Western sensors to protect its most lethal naval assets
By Roy Castellano ·
Ministry of Defence and the Secret Exploitation of Soviet Missiles
Kept secret for decades, the records of Soviet interceptor analysis and a 1955 visit by Russian doctors show a pattern of excision where the most sensitive methods were deleted.
By Constance Bell ·
Murray Baron and the 1987 Effort to Trigger a Sensor
Kept secret for fifteen years, a final report details a joint venture to use human 'assets' to disrupt electronic hardware—an experiment that ended in a calculated silence.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Thirteen Recommendations for a Digital Battlefield
Behind the unclassified veneer of a 1996 defense study lies a calculated effort to secure massive funding for an era of warfare that remains largely invisible to the public.
By Miriam Adler ·
US Army Silenced German Panzer Communications via JACKAL
German armored units were left blind and deaf on the battlefield by a specialized jamming operation that remained tucked away in the Radio Counter-measures Division's files.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Navy hunts hostile targets on 45 warships using AN/SRS-1A(V)
Hostile targets were tracked by a digital eye that does not blink, using civilian office hardware to turn the ocean into a grid of monitored frequencies for years.
By Miriam Adler ·