The Electronic Warfare Unit

When a piece of technology becomes important in war, methods to counteract this technology are sought.  This is true for radar as well.

With the creation and improvements in technology, methods to counteract this technology are sought out.  Radar is no different and as the Second World War raged and radar became more advances, so too did the ways to hinder it.

This continued into the Cold War in Canada through the Electronic Warfare Unit (EWU).  The EWU was a group originally located at St. Hubert, then moving to the Uplands.  This began in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1955 at St. Hubert when a group of five radio officers from No. 104 Communications Unit joined together to specialize in this area.

There were two divisions within the unit, Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) and Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM).