The US Navy announced plans to order the development of new self-defense tools for airplanes, which are able to shoot down approaching enemy aircraft missiles, said N + 1 with reference to Flightglobal.
reported, that "the development of the new system will be carried out within the project HKSPCS (Hard Kill Self-Protection Countermeasure System, "Self-defense system on the principle of physical destruction")». It is planned to use in the first place on the transport workers C-130 Hercules, as well as commercial aircraft, used by the military, including "Boeing" and DC-10.
According to the request of the military, the new system should be created in two versions: "A first embodiment will be not more than the mass of the system 1,04 tons, installed inside the airframe. Second Embodiment - suspended mass from container 0,4 to 1,3 tons, Holds enough to kill 4-10 the number of missiles countermeasures ".
Other details about the prospective system has not yet disclosed. In particular, dont clear, what exactly is meant by the term "hooks". It is not excluded, that we can talk, eg, about the air analogue tank active protection system.
