During the Russo-Ukrainian War Russian electronic warfare (EW) has excelled. During the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas Russia used "electronic warfare systems to jam and intercept communications signals, jam and spoof GPS receivers, and tap into cellular networks and hack cell phones." Russian EW was poorly optimized and as a result, usage of the EW system caused problems with their own communications and GPS. Due to the negative effects on their own forces, it fell out of use.^{[citation needed]}

During the Battle of Bakhmut Ukraine's forces made heavy use of field telephone as "Russian technologies aren't able to track or block field phones." One commander told the BBC that: "This technology is very old - but it works really well." and it's impossible to listen in".^{[8][9][10][11] [12][13]}

It has been documented in human rights reports as an instrument of electric torture with euphemisms utilizing the TA-57 telephone as a "phone call to Putin" or "call to Lenin".^[14]

In 2024, a leaked photograph showed one of the suspects accused of the 2024 Crocus City Hall attack being tortured by Russian FSB interrogators by having his genitals electrocuted by a TA-57.

According to the United States Army's Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files, field telephones were sometimes used in Vietnam to torture POWs with electric shocks during interrogations.^[15]

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  Soldier uses an EE-8 field telephone
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  TA-312 field telephone
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  TA-312 with handset off hook
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  Telephone Set TA-312 Manual
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  Field telephone switchboard on display at the Fort Devens Museum

• EE-8, World War II era through Vietnam War.^[16]
• TA-1 4 mile range self powered no batteries
• TA-43
• TA-312^[17]
• TA-838,^[18] includes touch-tone key pad.

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  Russian УНА field telephone
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  Russian ТАИ-43 field telephone
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  Russian TA-57 field telephone

• УНА "Unified unit" (Унифицированный аппарат)
• ТАИ-43 field telephone set (Полевой Телефонный Аппарат)
• ТА-57 field telephone set (Полевой Телефонный Аппарат)

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  L.M. Ericsson M37 field telephone

• TP-6N Developed in Norway for the armed forces early 1970s.
• TP-6NA Versions of TP-6N A to C
• M37 Swedish field telephone used by the Norwegian Civil Defence. This phone is fully interoperable with the EE-8, TA-1, TA-43 and TA-312 series of US Field Phones.
• EE-8 A part of The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) The EE-8* was used in USA from World War II to late seventies, and in Norway from World War II until the TP-6 could replace it.
• FF33 This phone was widely used from mid 1950s until it was replaced by TP-6 (after the EE-8) FF33 was left by the Germans when World War II ended, but was not used immediately due to political reasons.
• Mod 1932 Developed by Elektrisk Bureau for the Norwegian forces, approved in 1932 (as the 1st std. field telephone), but never made in great numbers, due to bureaucracy and the start of World War II. Based on a model made for the Turkish Army by Elektrisk Burau.

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  P 78 field telephone
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  P 90 field telephone

• TA-57, made in the Soviet Union
• P78, made in Sweden by L.M. Ericsson
• P90, made in the UK by Racal Acoustics Ltd.
• ET-10, made by Terma A/S

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  FF33 (Feldfernsprecher 1933)
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  FF OB/ZB

• FF33 (Wehrmacht)
• FF OB/ZB (Bundeswehr, Feldfernsprecher Ortsbetrieb / Zentralbetrieb)

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  SFT800

• SFT800, made by Siemens AG