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Cupping hits with the expectation of thousands of ADM-160C. Are there any options in the Russian air defense system?

The fact is not a secret to anyone., that the intensification of the work of the largest defense-industrial and aerospace concerns of the world observed over the past two decades in the design of promising long-range anti-aircraft guided missiles and long-range air-to-air missiles, equipped with highly sensitive and anti-jamming active RGSN, provoked an unprecedented pace of development of appropriate electronic countermeasures, operating in X- and J-bands centimeter waves.

Cupping hits with the expectation of thousands of ADM-160C. Are there any options in the Russian air defense system?

This is not only about the "Regatta" -type electronic warfare suspended container stations (are included in the architecture of the "Khibiny" complex), in-building active jamming stations L-402 "Himalayas", more advanced American container complexes of directional radio countermeasures AN / ALQ-249 Increment 1 «Next Generation Jammer», as well as towed false targets such as ALE-50, but also about autonomous electronic warfare systems and false imitation of EPR, deployed on medium and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles.

The introduction of false targets ADM-160C in the orders of hundreds of attacking cruise missiles "Tomahawk" and JASSM-ER will significantly complicate the life of operators of combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems, included in mixed air defense groups

The most famous representative of this class of electronic warfare means is the decoy rocket developed by the "Raytheon" corporation (false target) ADM-160C «MALD-J, radius of action 925 km and the time of patrolling over the active area of ​​the theater of operations from 40 to 70 minutes (depending on the flight speed). According to the information and news portal rbase.new-factoria.ru with reference to anonymous sources in the US Defense Department, over the past decade alone, the US Navy and Air Force have received more than 2000 products of this type. What is the concept of using these high-tech products?

Beyond the oversaturation of bandwidth (the number of simultaneously tracked "on the pass" targets) Radar AWACS and radar detectors of enemy air defense systems, as well as "clogging" the target channels of the illumination and guidance of the air defense missile system, achieved through the massive use of "MADL-J", These decoy missiles can counter the enemy's radar and radio reconnaissance means with two more sophisticated countermeasures.

First of all, this is an imitation of an effective reflective surface. (EOP) most types of subsonic air attack weapons, as well as tactical and strategic aviation (from the stealthy anti-ship missile LRASM to the F-22A fighter and the B-1B strategic bomber), which is achieved by integrating a high-energy multi-band radio-emitting module into the ADM-160C avionics, built around a programmable device based on a Luneberg lens, capable, depending on the tactical situation, vary EPR indicators in the range from 0.01-0.02 sq.. m up to several tens of square meters.

Secondly, this is a partial imitation of the frequency parameters of the radiation of onboard radar systems of multipurpose fighters of the 4 + / ++ generations, in service with the air forces of the countries of the North Atlantic alliance, Russian Aerospace Forces and the Chinese Air Force, allowing to temporarily mislead operators of enemy radio-technical reconnaissance complexes, as well as pilots, based on information from on-board radiation warning stations. The implementation of this technique is achieved due to the presence in the radio-electronic "stuffing" "MADL-J" (under the composite radio-transparent fairing) additional antenna module, powered by several low noise gallium nitride microwave transistors, which are coupled with radio frequency tunable filters RFTF (Radio Frequency Tunable Filters).

Cupping hits with the expectation of thousands of ADM-160C. Are there any options in the Russian air defense system?

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What are the technical drawbacks of the MALD-J decoy drones that can play a decisive role in the successful “suppression” of enemy missile strikes?

Nevertheless, in network-centric theaters of military operations of the XXI century, teeming with advanced ground-based radio intelligence (SRTR "Valeria", Orion, SIRTR "Autobase") and airborne (container complexes of the Sych family, as well as multi-frequency intra-hull complexes MRK-411 of Tu-214R aircraft), the effectiveness of ADM-160C decoys will be maintained for a fairly limited period of time - just a few minutes from the moment the launch vehicle leaves the suspension. Why?

Despite the wide range of generated radiation frequencies, as well as the use of the aforementioned state-of-the-art electronic element base, miniature radiator aperture, housed in a compact body with a diameter 152 mm, will not allow to "squeeze" that radiation power out of "MALD-J", which boasts modern airborne radars with active phased antenna arrays AN / APG-79, AN / APG-63(V)3 and AN / APG-77 (peak power exceeds 10-15 kW). And therefore it is logical to assume, what, for example, mobile radio intelligence stations "Valeria", equipped with highly sensitive ring passive HEADLIGHTS, as well as drives with loaded templates of frequency parameters of radiation of dozens of types of enemy radars, will be able to quickly distinguish the radiation of "MALD-J" from the radiation of the AN / APG-79 radars of the 5th generation F-22A fighters.

Furthermore, small-sized emitters "MALD-J", which are ordinary slotted antenna arrays, will not be able to realize that variety of operating modes, which is characteristic of full-fledged on-board radar systems. This flaw will be easily revealed by any modern electronic intelligence complex., including radiation warning stations of the L-150 "Pastel" family.

As for the multi-band radar and electronic intelligence systems MRK-411, as well as container stations RTR "Sych", then their productivity in the process of identifying hundreds of ADM-160C decoy missiles against the background of real elements of high-precision weapons (SKR "Tomagavk", tactical missiles JASSM-ER, AGM-84H SLAM-ER и t.д.) and tactical fighters of the enemy will be orders of magnitude superior to the performance of RTR ground stations such as "Valeria" or "Avtobaza", which is explained by the absence of restrictions on the radio horizon.

It is the airborne electronic reconnaissance station, which are auxiliary sources of target designation for automated control systems of anti-aircraft missile brigades "Baikal-1ME" and "Polyana-D4M1", will be able to select enemy aircraft as efficiently as possible against the background of MALD-J decoy missiles. In this way, the appearance of "side" target channels in the illumination radars of the S-400 air defense missile system, "Buk-M2 / 3", as well as irrational waste of 48N6DM and 9M317 / M anti-aircraft missiles ammunition will be minimized, which will allow maintaining the high combat stability of the mixed anti-aircraft missile subunits even during the most "dense" missile and air strikes of the enemy.

Eugene Damantsev

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