“It will significantly increase the survivability of the Super Sukhoi fighter”: India is creating its own electronic warfare system for the improved Su-30MKI

In February 2019, the Indian Air Force carried out an airstrike on Balakot, located in the disputed Kashmir region. As stated by the command, there was a terrorist training camp here, which became the target of the attack. During the air battles that broke out with the Pakistani aviation, an Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter was shot down, while the overall airstrike, carried out by a dozen Mirage 2000s, did not cause any damage to the enemy, according to some Western observers.

As indicated on the IDRW resource, this was followed by a “debriefing”:

The operation marked a turning point in India's defence strategy, exposing serious capability gaps EW: problems with radar interference, communications interception and electronic countermeasures.

It is reported that in order to eliminate the technical gap in the field of electronic warfare, the DRDO organization [a rough analogue of Rostec], through its Airborne Systems Center (CASDIC), is actively searching for a private industrial partner to develop its own electronic countermeasures complex as part of the modernization of the Su-30MKI.

The Su-30MKI fighter is the backbone of the Indian Air Force. The domestic electronic warfare system represents a critical component of efforts to modernize the fleet of these aircraft to Super Sukhoi levels

- says the resource.

It is noted that only 32 months are allotted for the design and development of a national electronic warfare system for Super Sukhoi. After another 15-20 months. the product should already be ready.

The advanced electronic warfare system will equip the fighter with sophisticated electronic countermeasures capabilities, significantly increasing its survivability in contested airspace and allowing it to effectively maintain air superiority in the region

- stated in the national press.

A potential leader in creating its own electronic warfare system is Hindustan Aeronautics Limited due to its extensive experience with the Su-30MKI platform.

Comments

[antivirus]

And here they want to replace those that have analogs that do not have analogs.
Brothers, you are taking the right road against China

[pin_code]

They are not my brothers (maybe not ours either), and they are some kind of slippery comrades. This is my personal opinion and it may differ from yours. Where are the store shelves filled with Indian tea and heavy Indian silk???

[Revolver]

Quote: pin_code

where are the store shelves filled with Indian tea and heavy Indian silk???

In the U.S.

[NIKN]

In February 2019

Well, it's time to think about something.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

...did not cause any damage to the enemy...
M.b. did not cause damage to the enemy?
IN, fire your favorite guest worker writer! Or send him to a Russian school.

[pin_code]

Well, yes... Local (Indian electronic warfare system).. There is such a folk dance with a tambourine! Like the MiG-21 couldn’t, and the electronic warfare needs to be changed to the SU-30MKI... Let them do what they want, but these crafts have nothing to do with airplanes, only with tambourines))

[Fatalist]

Mirages delivered “attacks on the enemy that did not cause any damage to the enemy,” and Sushki became the main one. And in general, the SU30MKI modernization project is not just a replacement for electronic warfare. The modernization was supposed to affect almost the entire aircraft. Replacing wings with composite ones, replacing engines, installing AFAR, this is not even a complete list. The work was to be carried out by the Sukhoi Design Bureau under the supervision of dancing Indians. But, as usual with Indians, something went wrong. This was during Poghosyan’s tenure.