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'Invisible' Russian Jets Evade Enemy Thanks to Electronic Countermeasures
Sputnik ^ | 22.03.2016

Posted on 03/22/2016 6:31:30 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

More Russian warplanes will be equipped with state-of-the-art Khibiny electronic countermeasures systems in the near future, according to RIA Novosti.

A greater number of Russian military jets, including Su-34 strike fighters, will be equipped with sophisticated Khibiny electronic countermeasures (ECM) systems in the immediate future, RIA Novosti quoted Igor Nasenkov, first deputy head of the Russian Company Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), as saying.

The Khibiny system provides individual aircraft with protection against enemy fighters' missile attacks and ground-based air defense systems. Thanks to this ECM system, Russian warplanes can become invisible to their enemies, according to KRET.

© PHOTO: VITALY V. KUZMIN

The state-of-the-art ECM system Khibiny

Nasenkov, for his part, said that KRET has produced "a great many" Khibiny systems for the Russian Armed Forces in the past year. He did not elaborate.

The Khibiny is a small torpedo shaped container which is mounted on the wingtips of aircraft and increases the survival rate of the planes by 25-30 percent.

After an aircraft receives an alert of a missile attack, the Khibiny system starts to cover it with a protective radio-electronic hood, which prevents enemy guided missiles from impacting the plane and diverts them elsewhere.

As far as the Su-34 is concerned, the system provides the jet with electronic warfare capabilities and enables it to carry out effective electronic countermeasures against radar systems, anti-aircraft missile systems and airborne early warning and control aircraft.

KRET, Russia's largest radio-electronics holding company, was founded in 2009. The holding, which unites over 95 companies, is part of Russia's state technologies corporation Rostec.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160322/1036736692/russia-warplanes-measures.html#ixzz43ddxaXsz


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; ew; jammer; russia

1 posted on 03/22/2016 6:31:31 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Sound good until others figure out countermeasures for it. It will then become a flying billboard and help hostile’s target acquisition.


2 posted on 03/22/2016 6:35:14 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Comes down to economics. We outproduce them. Leaves more for ‘toys.’ Every foreigner with an engineering degree should be given a green card(after proper vetting).


3 posted on 03/22/2016 6:39:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Sounds great until the missile switches over to “home on jam” mode...


4 posted on 03/22/2016 6:45:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

.....aaaand you can purchase one unit from the show and figer it out, ....aaand kaboooom!


5 posted on 03/22/2016 6:49:31 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Little Ray

I wonder if they ever worked out electronics that don’t make their pilots sterile like their high power radar used to do.

Whatever happened to the plasma shield that was supposed to make their planes invincible? Heard about it well over a decade ago. Never saw another word on it since.


6 posted on 03/22/2016 7:00:27 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

A cloaking device? Seems like it would take a lot of power to run something like that.


7 posted on 03/22/2016 7:11:29 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

The plasma shield was supposed to destroy any missile or bullet that came near the aircraft.


8 posted on 03/22/2016 7:16:32 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
prevents enemy guided missiles from impacting the plane and diverts them elsewhere.

Our missiles rarely make direct impact, anyway. That's why they have blast fragmentation and proximity fuse warheads.

9 posted on 03/22/2016 7:20:53 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Impressive. Am I permitted to call it “beautiful”, or will some newspaper girl call me sexist? Not that I would care.


10 posted on 03/22/2016 7:38:11 AM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

“Invisible”? No, spoof the missiles, maybe. The AMRAAM is not so easy to spoof, or was not a decade ago.


11 posted on 03/22/2016 10:26:05 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

They are using cold plasma shields to protect the starships they build for SG-1. ;)


12 posted on 03/23/2016 5:46:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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