Will the Russian “Alabuga” beat the American CHAMP? Rivalry "EMI-Killers"

We remember the last few days of the update as a real information explosion. news tapes of the leading Russian mass media, which, with their usual speed, notified observers about the development of a unique tactical missile under the Alabuga program, equipped with a microwave electromagnetic warhead. According to the statement of the general director of the developer company JSC Concern Radioelectronic Technologies Vladimir Mikheev, made back in 2014, Alabuga is a development work to create a microwave EMP generator capable, in the literal sense of the word, to burn out the onboard radio-electronic equipment of surface ships, ground units, as well as enemy aircraft at a distance of 3,5 km. Proceeding from this, one can easily assess the highest combat potential of a new product capable of disrupting the operation of enemy avionics at a distance of about 10-15 km and incapacitating it at a distance of 5-7 km. It should be noted that the new high-frequency electromagnetic suppression module should be easily unified with the majority of tactical and strategic cruise missiles existing and being developed in Russia for the most flexible use in theaters of war of the XNUMXst century.

The latest information surge occurred at the suggestion of the British resource Daily Star, which justifiably raised panic and equated the effectiveness of EMI equipment to the potential of nuclear weapons. Naturally, the well-known English tabloid, according to the old tradition, well went over the stick, but the essence remains the essence: the level of damage inflicted on the opponent’s electronics, with the exception of the destructive power of heat and radiant energy, is extremely serious. The hype spread to our media, “waking up” thousands of hurray-patriots, who suddenly began to assert that the West has nothing in common, and that we will win the conflict in any theater with the 100% probability. This opinion has not gone far from the truth, but there are some details that make it possible to express a more objective point of view.

If regarding the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex, which intercepted a couple of XURGM9U Grad NURSs, we can definitely say that it has no analogues among foreign self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons, then it is too early to say anything similar about Alabuga, because A similar program called CHAMP ("Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project") has been conducted in the USA for several years now. For example, October 22 16, specialists of the corporation "Boeing", together with representatives of the US Air Force, carried out a successful test tactical missile CHAMP, which was able to completely suppress the work of computer equipment and other electronics in 2012 buildings-purpose. Electromagnetic pulses of an EMI generator were so powerful that in addition to electronics, even the standard lighting system, not to mention the video surveillance system, was out of order. Recently, it is extremely rare to talk about the CHAMP project, and this is not at all accidental, because the project is at the stage of fine-tuning, and possibly integrating EMI-generators aboard such long-range cruise missiles like AGM-7B or RGM / UGM-158E. It is precisely in the diversity of the EMI-generating cruise carrier rockets, as well as in the impressive list of aircraft for their base that the main threat to our RTR and air defense weapons, which are in service with the Aerospace Forces, lies.

If the future carrier of CHAMP will be the AGM-158 JASSM-ER, the US Air Force will have significant advantages over the Alabuga project directly in its flexibility of use. Here, everything consists of a huge number of carriers for JASSM-ER: they are both strategic bombers B-1B and B-52H, and tactical fighter types F-15E "Strike Eagle", F-16C Block 52+, including carrier-based F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet". The latter have an order of magnitude better ability to operate on a complex 2st century air theater. In particular, due to XNUMX times higher speed, the possibility of flying in ultra-low altitude mode and less EPR, tactical shock aviation can present sudden and very unpleasant "surprises" in comparison with strategic aviation. Placement on suspensions of JASSM-ER missiles with EMI “equipment” will further increase the degree of danger.

As for our “Alabuga”, here we see at times a more powerful microwave electromagnetic generator, which is able to completely destroy the enemy’s airborne, surface and air assets of the enemy within 1700 - 2000 m. This is a significant advantage over the Boeing product. At the same time, the problem of the Alabuga project is that only such carriers as the SKR 3М14T Caliber, X-555 or X-101 have an acceptable range for the domestic EMI module. The first ones are adapted for use from universal built-in launchers of vertical type 3С-14Э / КЭ and inclined 3С-14ПЭ (ship-based), as well as mine UVPU underwater basing (DEPL pr. 677 "Lada"), the second and third from the suspension assemblies strategic missile-carrying bombers Tu-160М / 2 and Tu-95MS. Consequently, only such tactical launch vehicles like the X-30MK35, X-34AD or P-59 with a modernized combat compartment can be used to launch the Alabugi from the Su-2CM, Su-31С and Su-800 multi-purpose fighter jets. As is known, their range does not exceed 280 - 300 km, and therefore there will be an almost fourfold loss in comparison with the USA JASSM-ER - carriers of the CHAMP module.

Against this background, instead of hurray-patriotic demagogy in the comments to the news reports, it would be good to think about developing a specialized ultra-long-range cruise platform rocket for the Alabuga project, which could be used from tactical fighter pylons and subsequently overshadow American JASSM-ER, and also as often as possible to look closely at the progress of the overseas program CHAMP, because the enemy does not stand still.

Information sources:
http://expert.ru/2017/09/28/elektromagnitnyie/
http://vnews.agency/news/technology/31784-na-vooruzhenii-vvs-ssha-poyavyatsya-impulsnye-elektromagnitnye-izluchateli.html
https://svpressa.ru/war21/article/182594/

Comments

[VIX34]

Dry and to the point. Great stuff.

[Tusv]

Quote: VIN34

Dry and to the point. Great stuff

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I have such a hunch that an expert wrote an article of interest with an Hindu surname. Where did you see the P-800, aka Onyx, aka Yakhont, and from Bramos with a range of 300 km? Even about TTX tryndyat about 400 km. By the way here was a discussion on Onyx here. Onyx article only 400 or FSE lie

[Mimoprohodil]

Quote: Tusv

Where did you see the P-800, aka Onyx, aka Yakhont, and from Bramos with a range of 300 km?

And where did you single it out in aviation? Some layouts and plans. Heavily heavy. It seems to me not for nothing that they make mini-Bramos

[Romario_Argo]

on REP and EW we are ahead of the rest (!)
"Alabuga" is an electronic warfare weapon
"Rubella-4" is a defensive REP, so that no CHAMP can reach us, "brains will sinter at a distance of 300 km"

[Sharansky]

how can a radar jammer protect against a bomb?

[NIKNN]

Quote: Sharansky

how can a radar jammer protect against a bomb?

Well, in general, it's not just about the bomb, but about the delivery vehicle. If this is a CD, then there is a Rap and a PVO flag in your hands. It’s even more difficult to apply a bomb from a carrier aircraft in a given area if you have air defense equipment ...

[Romario_Argo]

how can a radar jammer protect against a bomb?

I looked at your comments .... somehow it’s not very knowledgeable
read it yourself about the REB Krasukha, draw an analogy, and you do not need to ask stupid questions, there is enough .....

[Sharansky]

Well read. This is a radar suppressant. How will it save you from a bomb?

[Vasily Alibabaevich]

Brother, I won’t lie. If carried on the back, it will not save. If you carry a camel, then also krants. But the plane may not fly, that’s the trouble, brother. We even understand the Buryats!)))

[Sharansky]

not you brother to me ..

[Vasily Alibabaevich]

ok sister, don't swear!)))

[Magic archer]

I remember back in 2000 there was information that the Americans were the first to use something similar in Serbia.

[zap167]

Amy was used by the United States in Yugoslavia. Microcircuit equipment was disabled there. Soviet-style radars assembled on radio tubes survived.

[ADmA_RUS]

In fact.
Both the US and US used only tactical missiles. Parity.
The author is not known weight and size characteristics of the warhead.
The author made an unsubstantiated assumption, and on the basis of this began to frighten and seek out weaknesses among us.
And the most important thing. Compare weapons with a difference in range differing by almost an order of magnitude - it's just 5!

[milling machine]

So it seems that NATO has long had a c.r. Taurus with an EMP warhead.

[thinker]

There is such info -

TAURUS HPM (English High Power Microwave - high-power microwave radiation) - an option designed to temporarily disable the information systems of the enemy and his energy sources. A non-lethal warhead is installed on the TAURUS HPM, causing this effect in electronic systems.

[yoyo1984]

The author’s rhetoric is painfully reminiscent of Mr. Kaptsov. And about the advantages, the author forgot to add to the radiation power and range of application. For he should be aware that the range of the above Russian crs is significantly higher than the same jasm-er.

[Leonid Har]

Great article. Thank!

[ares1988]

Well, before writing about the "Alabuga rocket" it would not hurt to get acquainted with what it really is. At least on the same site:
https://topwar.ru/126073-kret-razrabatyvaet-elekt
romagnitnoe-oruzhie-programma-alabuga-i-ee-result
aty.html
About having no analogues in the world, Pantsyr - Centurion and Mantis, of course, are not at work, yes.

[Operator]

EMI weapons - full bullshit.

The only thing that an electromagnetic pulse can do is to output the antennas of radio stations and radars (but not their equipment protected by fuses) on 10-15. In this case, the use of EMR weapons is possible only in the rear of the enemy, since on the front line it will stupidly disable its own antennas.

[Roma 1977]

And on the enemy’s ships, immediately before the attack with their anti-ship cruise missiles?

[Operator]

Since the attacking missiles have a jet / rocket engine, they are easily detected by thermal imagers of air defense systems.

[Roma 1977]

There is an opinion that if he found a cruise missile with a thermal imaging system of an air defense system, then it is too late to shoot at it.

[Operator]

Shipborne air defense systems by any in the radio or optical range detect RCC only at the radio horizon - from 30 to 40 km, depending on the height of the missiles and the height of the radio and optical locators.

Enough time to shoot down missiles.

[Roma 1977]

If it was so easy to shoot down anti-ship missiles, all the fleets of the world would switch to boarding battles with crooked sabers and musketons, so that it would be more reliable.

[Vlad.by]

How did you determine the 40 km radio horizon for anti-ship missiles, which is even at an altitude of 10 m? With an antenna height of junction of 14 m maximum?
And 15, even 10-12 do not want? Despite the fact that at the final stage, the RCC comes at a speed close to 2M. 700m / s Carl!
Those. Ship air defense has a maximum of 10-15 seconds from the moment of detection. Minus a second to make a decision, target allocation, promotion of rocket gyroscopes ... the first anti-ship missiles will be fired in 5-6 seconds. from the ship. And the second? And the third?
And you can hope for Hokai, but not very much - it will be in the carrier warrant. But AUG will be "soaked in the toilet" by all possible and available means and from all sides. And EW, too. So I’m not sure that the radio horizon for low-flying RCC will be so big. In any case, not from all sides. And something will appear on the side quite suddenly. So let's see how many Onyxes will be able to get their air defense.
And if in the front row there will be something like Alabuga ...

[ZVO]

Quote: Roma-1977

There is an opinion that if he found a cruise missile with a thermal imaging system of an air defense system, then it is too late to shoot at it.

Volcano-Phalanx, Shell-M and others - do not agree with you ...

[Roma 1977]

It’s just that they have not been shot at with anti-ship missiles for a long time.

[zap167]

In fact, fuses protect against voltage surges. From an EMR, a fuse will not protect, for example, a microcircuit.

[Operator]

A power fuse is built into the galvanic connection between the antenna and the equipment of the radar or radio receiver.

[Lopatov]

And what to embed in an optical locator?

[Operator]

An optical locator sensor, by definition, operates in a range of electromagnetic waves that are not generated by an EMP weapon.

In addition, optical sensors have long developed high-speed shutters that respond to heavy-duty radiation in the optical range such as a light burst of a nuclear explosion.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Operator

For optical sensors, high-speed shutters have long been developed that respond to heavy-duty radiation in the optical range

And how do the gates understand that the flash? Do they probably have sensors too? And those sensors have their own gates, or what?
Explain if possible

[Operator]

How they work - I don’t remember, try to google: "protection of the pilots eyes from the light flash of a nuclear explosion."

It seems to be photochemical technology.

[Golovan Jack]

Thank. Clear.

Quote: Operator

High-speed shutters that respond to heavy-duty radiation in the optical range have long been developed

Quote: Operator

How they work - I don’t remember, try to google ...

I won’t ... google. And the pilot’s eyes and optical sensors (with "shutters") are still very different things, IMHO.

[TOR2]

Quote: zak167

In fact, fuses protect against voltage surges. From an EMR, a fuse will not protect, for example, a microcircuit.

And why a fuse, then the zener diode will suit more. The most resistant to this type of defeat are tanks (and everything that creeps). If you hide the microcircuit under the skin of the tank and protect them at the entrance, then nothing fatal will happen. Tested by our engineers in the development of anti-nuclear protection for the T-55. The tanks will remain, but everything else will die.
As for the use of such missiles against air defense systems, this is a very dubious undertaking. Do not overestimate the radius of destruction of such warheads. The airspace around the complex is controlled and more likely such a missile will be littered on approach.

[region58]

Quote: TOR2

Zener diode will suit more

More precisely, the suppressor.

[gridasov]

The only thing that an electromagnetic pulse can do is to output the antennas of radio stations and radars for 10-15 minutes (but not their equipment protected by fuses). In this case, the use of EMR weapons is possible only in the rear of the enemy, since on the front line it will stupidly disable its own antennas. [/ Quote]
You are deeply mistaken. EMR creates a high potential ionized space in which high voltage is induced in microcircuits of any kind not only on fuses, but on all parts and elements of the microcircuit. Therefore literally everything burns out. However, theoretically, we can say that in any and even ultrahigh-ionized space you can protect yourself from such impulses. And this is a completely simple device. This is not a "Faraday cage", but rather it can be associated with the "Faraday Creek".
Otherwise, you are certainly right.

[zulusuluz]

EMP weapons are dangerous in that they are exposed not only to the antenna, but also to the components themselves. The principle of its action is that an electromagnetic wave with a high slew rate (nanosecond pulses) is generated in space. Such a rate of increase in magnetic flux leads to the generation of high voltages in sections of the circuit — the voltage of a conductor in a moving magnetic flux depends on the strength of the flux, the length of the conductor, and the speed of the magnetic flux. A low slew rate may lead to the development of a voltage sufficient for its breakdown in a section of a conductor the length of a fuse. Or a potential difference of 1000 volts will appear on the millimeter output of the transistor. What fuse is there already?
PS In simple terms, it’s like a lightning bolt at all and immediately bypassing all defenses.

[Kostadinov]

Quote: Operator

EMI weapons - full bullshit.

The only thing that an electromagnetic pulse can do is to output the antennas of radio stations and radars (but not their equipment protected by fuses) on 10-15. In this case, the use of EMR weapons is possible only in the rear of the enemy, since on the front line it will stupidly disable its own antennas.

10-15 minutes is not so bad - in this time you can overcome the enemy’s missile defense.

[Operator]

10-15 minutes backup optical locators work.

[karabas-barabas]

If you do not even destroy the air defense electronics with such an EMR charge, but at least temporarily shut off the air defense systems that are already on combat duty, make it overload, enter active mode, scan the sky, etc., etc., this may well weaken the defense by so much that the enemy will be able to overcome it and destroy the danger to their aircraft. As always, this EMP charge will be used in combination with other missiles and bombs to suppress air defense in the first place.

[Zaur]

If regarding the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and artillery system, which intercepted a couple of 9M22U Grad NURSs on the eve, we can say for sure that it has no analogue among foreign self-propelled air defense systems

.. no, and this is natural, because the cost of the Shell rocket is more than the cost of a minimum mine ..))

[Lopatov]

Quote: Zaur

because the cost of the Shell rocket is more than the cost of a mined mine ..))

And the cost of body armor is much more than the cost of a bullet.

[Zaur]

Quote: Spade

Quote: Zaur

because the cost of the Shell rocket is more than the cost of a mined mine ..))

And the cost of body armor is much more than the cost of a bullet.

this is because, unlike the Shell rocket, the armor .. reusable ..)

[Sergei N 58912062]

Quote: Zaur

this is because, unlike the Shell rocket, the armor .. reusable ..)

What makes you think that the body armor is reusable?

[Black sniper]

The modern Tomahawk missile can hover near the target, waiting for the optimal time to strike. AT

[Black sniper]

Will wait when they get her ;-)

[vasilkovichi]

I am sure that since they started talking about Alabuga out loud, then there is already more than one carrier.

[Mikhail Zubkov]

The best part is that there is no non-proliferation treaty for this. Like Afghan shepherds, they also like to launch Russian missiles bought for drug dollars. And the Canadian Eskimos or Indians, too, will be able to click on the "start" button at some fancy northern radar. Mexican gaucho coupled with Argentinean, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan (not to mention Cuban), you see, through the "wall of trump" cho-thread will be able to run ... It’s fun for everyone, in short, will live!

[Navoi.openw.ru]

Academician A.D. Sakharov warned Gorbachev that Russia would be left without the last pants in pursuit of military technology, a crooked foreign policy brought people to poverty, all the accomplices of the collapse of a great country laughed at at a clever man in the Kremlin, this betrayal had to be seen.

[NordUral]

Both, in company with the others, each in their own way and ditched the country. And not a high-tech arms race. And not so smart, as it turned out, the rulers of the country, containing half the world of parasites.

[NordUral]

Fuck less necessary.

[Andrey Porushar]

Ah, how much is Zhenya’s “author” repeating this, which he hates, a patriot of ur))) And in Zhenya’s article there are solid “if-yes,” “yes,” ... As everyone knows, if my grandmother .., but for now, they don’t officially have JASSM-ER and for sure there is nothing like that in Russia. Hooray to Russian Arms - we are the best, and we will always be like that, your mother!

[karabas-barabas]

Quote: Andrey Porushar

In the meantime, they don’t officially have JASSM-ER and probably there is nothing like that in Russia

Since 2014, the JASSM-ER, or AGM-158B version, up to 1000 km radius, has been delivered to the troops, an order of 2500 pieces. Prior to this, starting 2003, the base AGM-158A was delivered, which flies at 400 km, an order for 6000 pieces.

[BABA SHURA]

I went to buy a mechanical watch ...

[yuliatreb]

Against this background, instead of hurray-patriotic demagogy in the comments to the news reports, it would be good to think about developing a specialized ultra-long-range cruise platform rocket for the Alabuga project, which could be used from tactical fighter pylons and subsequently overshadow American JASSM-ER, and also as often as possible to look closely at the progress of the overseas program CHAMP, because the enemy does not stand still. Especially these lines catch the soul.
And our design bureau rested their forehead against the wall and that's it, arrived.

[Lycan]

I put the fact of the dissemination of information about the tech. military breakthrough thumbs down! And it doesn’t matter that Mikheev blabbed it in 2014.
"Tell me what you consider your greatest strength and I will know how to weaken you.
Tell me about your greatest fear, and I will know what I should bring you face to face with.
Tell me what you love the most, and I will know what to take from you.
Tell me what you crave the most, and I will know what to refuse you [at a critical moment for you], "
Darth Plagius.

[Earnest]

Quote: VIN34

Dry and to the point. Great stuff.

Complete nonsense. Why create a special delivery system when a great many options have been worked out at the R&D stage?

At the same time, the problem of the Alabuga project is that only carriers such as the 3M14T Caliber TFR, X-555 or X-101 have an acceptable range for the domestic EMR module

And you can’t shoot them closer? And to use as a land mine too, no, no, for example, load into a car and bring to the right place to activate at the right time? So much impossible, as if mom wouldn’t allow It is more important to understand whether this technology is in the form of a ready-to-use device, or are rumors of “adopting” an empty talk yet?

[Kadimich]

If the "experts" with the same patriotic ardor developed means for PEACE, and not for WAR, we would be the FIRST in the world! And so ... hit Alabuga on sanctions ...