A hybrid digital electronic tuner (HDET) uses a modified forward signal power injection technique, a variance of a prior art Gamma Boosting Unit (GBU) technique, cascaded with a digital, PIN diode based, electronic tuner, all integrated in the same low loss parallel plate airline (slabline) to create a compact hybrid tuner unit able of generating thousands of high reflection factors (|Gamma|≥1) at millisecond tuning speed.