Half-billion contract: US Air Force F-16 will be equipped with new missile attack warning systems

It became known that the US Air Force F-16 aircraft will be equipped with new missile attack warning sensors. We are talking about systems operating in the infrared range. These are Israeli-made systems.

Sensors will be installed under the wings of fighter jets and integrated with electronic warfare systems and thermal trap shooting systems. It is noted that the sensors can be installed on pylons of the Danish manufacturer Terma.

New versions of the missile attack warning system were created by the Israeli company Elbit. The contract for the production of such sensors has already received its American "daughter" - Elbit Systems of America. The full cost of the contract will cost the US military budget nearly half a billion dollars (472 million). At the first stage, it was decided to spend about $ 17 million on production and test use.

The system includes options for visual and audible warnings to the pilot through a monitor in the cockpit or through a Cueing System Helmet Element (JHMCS).

In addition, a contract was signed with the aforementioned Danish company Terma for $ 84 million. The PIDSU pylons she creates will be used not only in the US Air Force, but also in aviation formations of the American National Guard - on F-16 aircraft. PIDSU are universal shells that can combine several useful elements, one of which should be a missile attack warning sensor. Similar integrated systems have been developed for Panavia Tornado aircraft.

Comments

[Victor_B]

A perfectly normal practice of modernization ...
For us, bad news.
We have finished and will continue to finish (in the sense of modernization) our Migi and Dryers.
Let them "rejoice" for us too.

[Fedorov]

And in Migakh and Sushkakh, what was not like that? Not at that level, of course, in terms of electronics. But the airborne complex "Rita" from the flyers, in a pleasant female voice, reported - "missile attack", which means it is necessary to fire evasion and heat waves and think about it - she reported directly into the helmet in the 20th century.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Fedorov

Not at such a finite level in the sense of electronics.

Well, not so much so primitive with us ...
But nobody is going to report comparative real characteristics for our sofas.
Moreover, our military does not know about the state crafts, but they are about ours.
And here we are!
Couch analysts.
And EXACTLY decide what is better and what is worse!

[Fedorov]

Couch analysts.
And EXACTLY decide what is better and what is worse!

What a pessimism. Not all of them are "couches. Some of them had to shoot. For example, even now put me in a BM, everything is already printed in my brains."
And on the site, for a long time, according to other nicknames, Roma Skomorokhov and Vadik Smirnov were twice banned forever for obscenities and Jews. But I communicate with some of my comrades on the site personally, all are warriors. So the opinions are not all "couch".

[Victor_B]

Quote: Fedorov

Not all of them are "couches. Some of them had to shoot.

Do not take to heart!
After all, by nickname it is impossible to determine who you are - a military officer or a schoolboy / student.
Again, a combat officer in ten years on a civilian lags behind any new technology in any way.
Here I am an air defense officer and what I was taught in comparison with what is - heaven and earth!
On the other hand, nature did not change the laws of propagation of radio waves.
Therefore, all these radar "portraits" from which from any angle and at any distance it is possible to determine the type of aircraft make me laugh.
Yes they allow to determine. WITH SOME degree of accuracy. I believe that not even with 20%. But much less.
Yeah, and all sorts of Lynk-16 in real time continuously giving network-centric information. In real. Continuously. ON THE RADIO CHANNEL! Imperceptibly. Not afraid of interference.
In what range is it possible to ensure stable duplex data transmission for 300-500 km during maneuvering?

[Fedorov]

Therefore, all these radar "portraits" from which from any angle and at any distance it is possible to determine the type of aircraft make me laugh.

Here you are right, I myself am the air defense officer of the ground forces. Maybe we’re behind on the topic, but on the screen there will still be a dot, fatter or smaller, now electronics solves it.
And I don’t know about the interference - they gave us photo-maps "flares, which aircraft or aircraft carrier could deliver them. I have not seen it in real life."

[Victor_B]

Well, I can’t judge.
On survey radars, for sure, all this is soooooooo doubtful.
You can already learn a lot from the "sharp beam", but no one ever turns on the SNR just like that.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

Again, a combat officer in ten years in civilian life ....... the old horse doesn’t plow deeply, but it certainly won’t ruin the furrows .... but the striped horses can surprise me, I personally thought that such systems should have been installed 40 years ago something like our Lipa, precisely when the MANPADS calculations did not manifest themselves childishly, but here .... and another moment, with a lightning during the problem, it’s impossible to replace the old people for some reason, oh yes the Saxons are striped

[Victor_B]

Quote: Crimean partisan 1974

Again, a military officer in ten years in civilian life ....... the old horse doesn’t plow even deeply, but it certainly won’t ruin the furrows ....

but will not plow deeply ...
Believe me, at age 55, brains no longer work so fun ... and then everything gets worse.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

Believe me, at 55 years old, brains are no longer so fun ... that's how it is. nevertheless, the experience, so it won't be spent on drink in the division, the memory will be refreshed and ogly on the minen, my deadline has already passed 30 years and article 324 of the ship's charter is still remembered in detail, and even so "latrine" bulkhead "and so on still cannot be knocked out, although for 23 years in a fire with other terms I rattled off. so the furrows are not sporty

[Victor_B]

Quote: Crimean partisan 1974

so the furrows are not sporty

So in the war and win, in the end, such as you men!

[KCA]

KRET has long been working on a photon radar, so with it it will be possible to recognize not only the type of aircraft, but also the type of missiles on pylons

[Victor_B]

Quote: KCA

above the photon radar, here it will be possible to recognize not only the type of aircraft, but also the type of missiles on the pylons

Nuuuu ... I just don’t know how to object to you.
Do not read laudatory articles of our illiterate magazines!
Understand that a meter wave, an X-ray, is all ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES.
And the laws of their passage / reflection are VERY difficult to study, but they are unchanged.
Passage: the higher the range, the smaller the range and more interference from clouds, etc.
Reflection: there is generally an ass! Just don't rub me in about stealth. The plane never flies on the radar.
In general, for understanding, you need to read a lot of THICK books.
And on the topic of detecting MANPADS launches, too, is not all clear.
Everything is complicated.

[KCA]

The journalists in our country really are always talking nonsense, but sometimes they report with the employees of the research institute, in particular, an expert from KRET spoke about recognizing the type of aircraft and its weapons, in the plot about photon radar, there are probably strong shifts in this matter, it’s not just that radars with AFAR are not very developed and used in our country, with AFAR 80% of the energy goes into heat, even water cooling has to be set, with the photonic one, vice versa, 80% of the energy goes into radiation

[Victor_B]

Quote: KCA

said a specialist from KRET, in the story about photon radar

... and you say!

(Old joke)

in particular, the recognition of the type of aircraft and its weapons

Well, what did he have to tell the journalist? Truth and exact character?

[Crimean partisan 1974]

photon radar ....... the phrase is certainly seasoned, but this device is just an ordinary photodetector and lidar, it has been present in military equipment for a long time but there are many limitations that prevent the general introduction of such devices. there is another matyug in this area, a quantum radar based on quantum mechanics, but while the quantists themselves are catching up with this subject, everything is in darkness. so there is what is tangible

[KCA]

ROFAR is not a lidar at all, like the gayts have, well, absolutely

[Crimean partisan 1974]

ROFAR is not a lidar at all, like a nut, but ........ a laser beam in the microwave range, that's the whole photon radar, as if not quite like a nut, but the principle is the same

[bessmertniy]

It's nice that we are not far behind.

[rocket757]

Normal modernization during operation ... equipment will still serve.

[Thrifty]

Here they are the Israeli omnipotent lobby, the United States except the nameplate Made in Yankiya will soon not be producing any weapons even in the states. For, it’s cheaper to buy someone else’s and put on stream than to develop your own.

[fider]

develop
General - it still talks about something else, go to school, study!

[bars1]

Israeli system, Danish pylon ... Where are you going to America ?!

[voyaka uh]

They make fuselages and engines if you forget. They do AFARs. Too many.
And different hinges of avionics are more profitable to choose the most modern from the allies. ELBIT specializes in avionics and communication systems. And leads the world in this area.

[Grigory_45]

US Air Force F-16 aircraft will be equipped with new missile attack warning sensors. We are talking about systems operating in the infrared range. These are Israeli-made systems.

similar systems (MAWS, Missile Approach Warning System - missile attack warning system) have been on combat aircraft since the 80s.
Their principle has not changed - IR and UV sensors that respond to the torch of the starting rocket (regardless of the method of pointing it, which is a plus of the system), to re-reflection of sunlight from the rocket body and reacting to the heat of the nozzle after the engine is turned off.
They go along the path of increasing sensitivity and reducing the number of false positives (immunity to interference, artificial and natural)