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Parent topics
- Deception [r]: The act of deceiving or misleading, through the intentional concealing or misrepresentation of facts. [e]
- Radar [r]: A contraction of radio direction and ranging, used for detecting and tracking targets, navigation, imagery, and special applications. [e]
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
- Sonar [r]: A contraction of sound navigation and ranging, formally includes the active mode in which a pulse goes out and a receiver measures the echo. Also includes hydrophones or passive, listen-only systems. [e]
Subtopics
- Electronics countermeasures suite controller [r]: A computer aboard a protected vehicle, which both aids in situational awareness of weapon and sensor threats to the vehicles, and reduces crew workload in countering the threats. Practical implementations usually include at least one electronic warfare function in the controller, such as a radar warning receiver or electronic warfare expendables dispenser. [e]
- AN/ALQ-213 [r]: A Danish Air Force-designed electronics countermeasures suite controller used on aircraft of many countries [e]
- Electronic warfare expendables dispenser [r]: Part of an integrated electronic warfare system which fires, manually or under computer control, [[flare (electronic warfare]|flares]], chaff, and disposable jammers, all in a compatible cartridge form factor and possibly tows intelligent reusable decoys [e]
- AN/ALE-37 [r]: An electronic warfare expendables dispenser, optimized for dispensing of large volumes of chaff over an area being attacked or overflown, in support of an overall mission rather than the more usual protection of a single aircraft [e]
- AN/ALE-39 [r]: An obsolete dispenser of electronic warfare expendables (e.g., flares and chaff), to be replaced by the AN/ALE-47 [e]
- AN/ALE-47 [r]: An intelligent countermeasures dispenser for military aircraft, which can receive commands directly from warning receivers, and dispense expendable radar and infrared decoys, as well as manage a retrievable decoy towed via an fiber optic cable [e]
- Chaff [r]: A passive, disposable radar countermeasure using strips of metal foil or aluminized plastic, cut to match the wavelength of the expected radar, and used to send false reflections back to the radar receiver [e]
- Flares [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
- Deceptive decoy [r]: Within the broad context of electronic warfare, which includes both electromagnetic and acoustic sensing, a device, independently launched from a target or escort, which interferes with enemy tracking or final weapons guidance [e]
- AN/ALE-55 [r]: An active electronic attack remote device targeted at radar, spooled out by an AN/ALE-47 dispenser, which can run through the flame of an afterburner and, at the end of its tether, act as a deceptive decoy trackbreaker or a seductive sacrificial decoy [e]
- Sacrificial decoy [r]: Using electronic warfare techniques, a (usually) mobile transmitting device that will lure an enemy weapon to attack it rather than the real platform it is protecting [e]
- AN/ALE-50 [r]: An expendable, actively transmitting radar decoy pod that is towed behind the aircraft it protects [e]
- Infrared countermeasures [r]: Equipment and flying techniques that can break the lock of a heat-seeking missile on a target aircraft. [e]
- AN/AAQ-24 [r]: A Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) active electronic device that uses intense light to dazzle or burn out infrared missile seekers [e]
- Laser warning receiver [r]: An electronics warfare component that detects the energy from a laser designator or laser rangefinder, warning the target to take defensive actions [e]
- Missile warning receiver [r]: An electronic warfare subsystem that detects the thermal energy, or other signatures, of a missile launch or its flight, in order to take defensive measures [e]
- AN/AAR-54 [r]: Using multiple ultraviolet sensors, this is an missile exhaust detector and alarm [e]
- AN/AAR-57 [r]: Mounted on aircraft, the system detects the ultraviolet energy emissions of missile threats [e]
- EL-M-2160 [r]: An missile warning receiver made by the Elta Electronics subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries, in versions for both military use and to protect civil aircraft. [e]
- Radar warning receiver [r]: allows detection of a radar that potentially might be able to sense the platform carrying the receiver, but does not give detailed characterization of the radar signal, as needed for electronic intelligence. [e]
- AN/APR-39 [r]: A radar warning receiver and electronics countermeasures suite controller that provides coverage for C/D and E through J band CW radar, used on helicopters and slow fixed-wing aircraft [e]
- AN/ALR-41 [r]: A radar warning receiver based on the AN/ALR-36 and used in the F-111. It was replaced by the AN/ALR-62. [e]
- AN/ALR-56 [r]: A radar warning receiver, part of the electronic warfare suite for most F-15 series fighter aircraft [e]
- AN/ALR-62 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ALR-66 [r]: Combined CW and pulse radar warning receiver in the C through J bands [e]
- AN/ALR-93 [r]: Part of the defensive electronics suite for United States Special Operations Command helicopters and fixed-wing transport aircraft, this detects a wide range of radar, and cues a decoy launcher and other countermeasures [e]
- AN/ALQ-136 [r]: An obsolescent integrated radar detection and jamming system used on U.S. helicopters. [e]
- Elisra SPS-1000 [r]: Israeli-built radar warning receiver, originally designed for the Israeli Ra'am (Thunder) variant of the F-15I Strike Eagle, and now also on the Israeli F-16I Fighting Falcon variant [e]
- Sirena [r]: An early series of Soviet and Russian radar warning receivers [e]
- Radar jammer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ALQ-131 [r]: A pod-mounted intelligent radar jammer of 1990 vintage, with capabilities against both continuous wave and pulse radar in different frequency bands [e]
- AN/ALQ-162 [r]: A continuous wave radar jammer, used primarily on helicopters against semi-active radar homing missiles [e]
- AN/ALQ-165 [r]: An obsolete electronic warfare jammer on F-111 and F-18 Super Hornet aircraft, replaced on the Super Hornets with the AN/ALQ-214 [e]
- AN/ALQ-178 [r]: A U.S. made modular electronic warfare system intended for foreign military sales to F-16 Fighting Falcon operators; not all features will be made available to all countries due to technology transfer controls [e]
- AN/ALQ-184 [r]: A 1990s-vintage multiband radar jammer, in current use, that can use the AN/ALE-50 towed decoy, used by the U.S. and Taiwan [e]
- AN/ALQ-214 [r]: An advanced electronic warfare system featuring distributed computer processing both on a tactical aircraft and in towed pods [e]
- Radio jammer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ULQ-30 [r]: A mobile system for collecting information on electronic transmitters and optionally jamming them, developed for the United States Marine Corps giving capabilities to temporarily block cellular telephony [e]
Other related topics
- C3I-ISR [r]: Command, control, communications and intelligence, combined with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance [e]
- Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). [e]
- Communications intelligence [r]: The subset of SIGINT concerned with signals intended to be intelligible to human beings, in the form of voice, messages, or images. [e]
- Direction finding [r]: Finding the location of an electromagnetic emitter, either by the crossed bearings from directional antennas from various known points, or by the difference of time-of-arrival of the signal at those points. [e]
- Electronic intelligence [r]: Collection and analysis of electronic signals not intended to be intelligible to humans, such as radar or navigational aids [e]
