
Frode Ringdal
Chief of the Norwegian Armed Forces' Electronic Warfare Centre and Subject Matter Expert for EW on Air Force platforms at the Royal Norwegian Air Force (Luftforsvaret).
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Jul 8, 2026
Thor's Hammer 2026: How NATO Tests for the Next Drone War
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Frode RingdalGUEST
Thank you so much, Ken, for, um, having this, uh, interview and visit this, uh, very important, uh, NATO trial here at Rena Army Camp.

Frode RingdalGUEST
Back in, uh, my air, air base, I'm, um, the current commander for the Norwegian EW Center, where we normally program the most, uh, the most important things in the Air Force, the aircraft.

Frode RingdalGUEST
But we also have a small team programming the, uh, operational software for our armed forces', uh, jammers.

Frode RingdalGUEST
And, uh, we have, uh, three sections, two, uh, at the Rykke Air Station, and we have also one, uh, section in Florida, uh, at Eglin Air Force Base reprogramming the F35 mission data file.
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Frode RingdalGUEST
Well, uh, again, um, for this exercise, uh, since, uh, Thor's Hammer '24, we have seen, uh, the, the UAS drones in, uh, the war on Ukraine from Russians and the drone war.

Frode RingdalGUEST
And, uh, to continue to build what we learned in, um, Thor's Hammer '24 in the US, considering the, uh, effectiveness and capabilities, uh, between, uh, nations participating in, uh, Thor's Hammer series, meaning, uh, when two nations standing beside each other, we still don't interfere with, uh, our systems, uh, because there's, um, an evolving threats out there in the electromagnetic spectrum.