The 36 Tomahawk cruise missiles that did not reach the Al-Shayrat base in Homs (Syria) on April 7, 2017, could have been " destroyed "by Russian electronic warfare (EW) means, writes the Military-Industrial Courier.
The weekly recalls that of the 59 launched missiles, only 23 reached the base, while the place of the fall of the rest is unknown. The publication recalls that Al-Shayrat is used "as a jump airfield when providing fire support for the offensive of government troops," and Moscow cannot attack American missiles that do not directly threaten the Russian military in Syria.
The newspaper links the loss of the Tomahawk in the Middle East state with such Russian electronic warfare systems as Krasukha-4, Samarkand, Rosehip-AERO, R-330J "Resident" and R-330M1P "Diabazol".
In particular, the publication notes that "Rosehip-AERO "" simply hacks the onboard computer of the drone when it meets a familiar system, and if it is unknown to it, it transfers it under its control in a few minutes." According to the publication, this EW tool "generates a false navigation field with the replacement of dynamic coordinates and thus prevents the execution of the return program" to the "launch point in case of loss of the control signal".
In February 2019, a military analyst from Malta, Babak Taghway , posted a video on Twitter showing a video intercepted by the Iranian military from the American MQ-9 Reaper strike and reconnaissance drone. According to him, the Russian radio intelligence system 1L222 "Avtobaza-M"was used for interceptions.
Ivan Potapov