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The German air force plans to upgrade the electronic warfare used in aviation. To meet the needs of Israel and Germany started to develop electronic warfare system for the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets.
About it reports American journal Defense News.
To solve this problem, the efforts were combined specialists of the Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the German Hensoldt, specializing in the field of sensor technology. That they teamed up to work together, the companies announced last week.
The idea of modernization is to combine the system of jamming signals from Rafael Sky Shield system and jamming to neutralize the defenses of the enemy from Hensoldt known as Kalaetron Attack.
Expected to be completed this project in 2028.
The agreement on the cooperation between the two companies was signed on 18 October in tel Aviv. The signatories became their General Manager: Thomas Muller (Hensoldt) and our attention now har-even (Rafael).
The project will allow the German air force to turn your jet fighter Eurofighter Typhoon platform for electronic attacks.
At the moment, the avionics of this plane includes a radar system CAPTOR, infrared recognition system goals PIRATE, a complex EW Praetorian and other equipment. Praetorian is essentially an automated system of self-defense fighter.
