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.
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Sound good until others figure out countermeasures for it. It will then become a flying billboard and help hostile’s target acquisition.
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).
Sounds great until the missile switches over to “home on jam” mode...
.....aaaand you can purchase one unit from the show and figer it out, ....aaand kaboooom!
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.
A cloaking device? Seems like it would take a lot of power to run something like that.
The plasma shield was supposed to destroy any missile or bullet that came near the aircraft.
Our missiles rarely make direct impact, anyway. That's why they have blast fragmentation and proximity fuse warheads.
Impressive. Am I permitted to call it “beautiful”, or will some newspaper girl call me sexist? Not that I would care.
“Invisible”? No, spoof the missiles, maybe. The AMRAAM is not so easy to spoof, or was not a decade ago.
They are using cold plasma shields to protect the starships they build for SG-1. ;)
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