NATO Allies tested their ability to evade and counter anti-ship missiles using electromagnetic tactics during NEMO 19.
Thirteen NATO Allies gathered to test their ability to counter and evade anti-ship cruise missiles during the Naval Electro Magnetic Operations – or “NEMO” – trials. NEMO 19 pitted Allied vessels, including Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), against a spectrum of ground and air-based anti-ship missile threats. The trials allowed naval commanders to experiment with new tactics, while allowing Allied scientists to gather crucial data about their ships’ vulnerabilities. Footage includes shots of the US Navy destroyer USS Gridley responding to simulated cruise missile attacks, including a damage control drill. Interviews: US Navy Rear Admiral Edward Cashman, Commander SNMG1; UK Royal Navy Lieutenant Kieran Lewis; UK Royal Navy scientist Dr Francis Talbot.
SHOTLIST
1. (00:00) WIDE SHOT – USS GRIDLEY EXTERIOR
2. (00:05) LONG SHOT – ALLIED FLOTILLA UNDER SAIL
3. (00:11) GIMBAL SHOT – SAILOR LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS
4. (00:16) GIMBAL SHOTS – GRIDLEY BRIDGE
5. (00:30) GIMBAL SHOT – SAILORS MANNING MACHINE GUN ON GRIDLEY BRIDGE WING
6. (00:33) VARIOUS SHOTS – GRIDLEY BRIDGE
7. (00:56) VARIOUS SHOTS – GRIDLEY DAMAGE CONTROL TEAMS RESPOND TO SIMULATED CRUISE MISSILE ATTACK
8. (01:41) GIMBAL SHOT – ELECTRO-OPTIC AND INFRARED CAMERAS
9. (01:46) GIMBAL SHOT – TRAILER HOUSING EQUIPMENT USED BY NATO JOINT ELECTRONIC WARFARE CORE STAFF
10. (01:53) TELEPHOTO SHOT – MULTI-SPECTRAL TRACKER ARRAY USED BY NATO JOINT ELECTRONIC WARFARE CORE STAFF
11. (01:58) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD CASHMAN, US NAVY, COMMANDER OF STANDING NATO MARITIME GROUP 1 “Really there’s two main objectives to the NEMO trials. One, it’s an opportunity to do some science and technology work, to collect data, to do some analysis, to learn more about our ships, the vulnerability and the capabilities of the ships in an evolving electromagnetic requirement. The second real part of NEMO is to do some test and evaluation of the current tactics, techniques and procedures for countering anti-ship cruise missiles. To do task group-level work, evaluating the current tactics and evaluating their effectiveness, providing feedback to continue to evolve those processes.”
12. (02:41) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD CASHMAN, US NAVY, COMMANDER OF NATO STANDING MARITIME GROUP-1 “We also have to consider their ability to target and our ability to remain untargeted at those sorts of distances. That requires a comprehensive approach across the entire electromagnetic spectrum to manage what we are emitting and what we are giving away and our abilities to defend ourselves.”
13. (02:59) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) LIEUTENANT KIERAN LEWIS, UK ROYAL NAVY, MILITARY ADVISOR TO DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES “What we are looking at on shore is emulating the threat, and also having a look at what the enemy might see of the vessels involved. So, we are measuring what the ships might look like to a radar or a camera system through various means.”
14. (03:14) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) LIEUTENANT KIERAN LEWIS, UK ROYAL NAVY, MILITARY ADVISOR TO DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES “There is a couple of different ways of doing it where we might use and reuse old bits of missiles and then plug them into all the systems to create the response that we need, or we might build something from scratch using an existing radar system, and then start to use some new technologies, which allows us some flexibility on what we can simulate.”
15. (03:34) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) DR FRANCES TALBOT, SENIOR PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST, DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES “This is a very valuable opportunity to gather real data on real ships, firing real decoys. And also, with our NATO colleagues here with different systems, we are gathering slightly different data from different locations, at different frequencies and we compare all that data and get lots of information from it.”
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