electronic warfare-support measures

1. 1.

   electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition

   SynonymsESM

   Broaderelectronic warfare

Questions about electronic warfare-support measures

What does electronic warfare-support measures mean?

electronic warfare-support measures means "electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition".

What is another word for electronic warfare-support measures?

Close synonyms include ESM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electronic warfare-support measures a common word?

electronic warfare-support measures is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.