Lesson 1 — Kill Chain & the EW Framework

The air-threat kill chain, the ES/EP/EA taxonomy that organizes every spectrum technique, and the fourth-power law that explains why halving a radar's detection range costs a 12 dB cut in RCS.

Reading

Kill Chain & the EW Framework

Detect → Track → Identify → Engage → Kill, the ES/EP/EA disciplines, and the fourth-power detection law.

Flashcards

Review deck

Key terms and relations from the lesson, in a self-test deck.

Slides

Lesson slides

The deck we work through in class — an HTML deck you can annotate in the browser, with a print view for saving a PDF.

Demo

Kill Chain Explorer

Walk each link, see the disciplines that break it, and drill ES/EP/EA classification.