April 7, 1986

April 7, 1986

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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Antiaircraft Warning Radar Plays Key Role in Survival

ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Electronic Systems Emerge As Costliest Avionic Item

STAREGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE

Congress, Pentagon Clash on Report Citing SDI Technical Problems

By Paul Mann9 min

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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Antiaircraft Warning Radar Plays Key Role in Survival

Radar warning receiver systems, first developed for tactical aircraft during the Vietnam War to alert the flight crew to enemy radar-directed antiaircraft weapons, have become vital avionics equipment for combat aircraft survival.
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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Electronic Systems Emerge As Costliest Avionic Item

Electronic warfare systems for fighter aircraft have become the most complex and costly avionics on board, displacing the airborne fire control radar system in that respect. For example, the price of the USAF/McDonnell Douglas F-15C’s expanded capability Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS), including Northrop’s ALQ-135B jamming subsystem and the Loral ALR-56C radar warning subsystem, will be about $2 million, roughly twice the cost of the aircraft’s radar.
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STAREGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE

Congress, Pentagon Clash on Report Citing SDI Technical Problems

By Paul Mann9 min

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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

System Suppliers Find Increasing Technical Challenges in EW Market

Washington—New electronic warfare systems beginning or nearing production, and another being updated to meet new threats that have emerged since it was developed 15 years ago, demonstrate the intrinsic technical challenges and the more demanding business environment in which EW system suppliers must now operate.
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ELECTRONIC WARFARE: TECHNICAL TRENDS

Navy, USAF Critically Review Airborne ECM Programs

Washington—Electronic warfare systems, intended to deny an enemy the crucially important military benefits of radar and guided missiles, are being examined more critically by the military services and Congress, which are especially concerned with systems for self-protection of tactical aircraft because of growing complexity, cost and schedule slippages.
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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

New Lure for Radar-Guided Missiles Expands Countermeasures Role

Genex, a new, small, active-type expendable countermeasures cartridge that is ejected from an aircraft and emits radarlike signals to lure a radar-guided missile from its intended target, will expand the role of this class of countermeasures.
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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

USAF Stresses Electronic Combat In Six-Week Green Flag Exercise

Eglin AFB, Fla.—The annual six-week Green Flag Electronic Combat training exercise at Nellis AFB, Nev., sponsored by USAF’s Tactical Air Warfare Center here, is one indication of the top priority now being given to electronic warfare. TAWC is responsible for establishing the required operational capability in EW for the Tactical Air Forces and later evaluates new systems developed to meet its ROCs as well as devising tactics for their use.
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SHUTTLE 51-L LOSS

Launch Delays Pose Problems For Space Commercial Ventures

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ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Defense Official Stresses Increased Jamming of Soviet Communications

The U. S. should give greater emphasis to jamming the Soviet Union's communication links with fighter aircraft and those used to interconnect its many ground radars, according to Donald Latham, assistant secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Europe Launches Ariane V17 From New ELA-2 Facility

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz7 min

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