F-35 Decoy System (1 Viewer)

[sanman]

Seems clever -- is it new? If so, why wasn't this done before?

 

[dmpi]

Planes always had counter-measures but with modern electronics things have gotten pretty darn sophisticated. Counter-measures require intel from enemy weapon systems. It's a cat and mouse game where you get close enough to trigger their defenses and have their radar beam on you so you can record what they send. Sometime our planes have actually collided with the enemy.

Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JMB1911A1]

Welcome to 2012. And I am sure it was happening before that.

Have you ever seen a picture of a fighter plane towing a radar decoy? Here it is

Towed decoy systems are used to protect military aircraft from radar-guided missiles. These countermeasures are towed behind the host aircraft protecting

theaviationist.com

 

[Redress]

Seems clever -- is it new? If so, why wasn't this done before?

ECM/ECCM systems for aircraft have been pretty sophisticated for some time, though that system described in your video is a significant upgrade over the old chaff/flare/Jammer buckets we used along with the ALR and ALQ systems.

This is a chaff bucket:



Each of those round holes holds either a flare, a jammer, or a collection of chaff(kinda strips of aluminum foil that ****s with radar). They are loaded in a very careful order, and the pilot can fire off individuals, groups, rows, all of a type or just all of them. They perform basically the same job that the system in your video did, just a little lower tech. They work in conjunction with two very sophisticated electronics systems in the plane known as ALR and ALQ(which are pretty classified in what they do, and my knowledge is way, way out of date). Towable jammers where around when I was in, but where used for livefire exercises, not as combat ECM.

 

[Fledermaus]

ECM/ECCM systems for aircraft have been pretty sophisticated for some time, though that system described in your video is a significant upgrade over the old chaff/flare/Jammer buckets we used along with the ALR and ALQ systems.

This is a chaff bucket:

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Each of those round holes holds either a flare, a jammer, or a collection of chaff(kinda strips of aluminum foil that ****s with radar). They are loaded in a very careful order, and the pilot can fire off individuals, groups, rows, all of a type or just all of them. They perform basically the same job that the system in your video did, just a little lower tech. They work in conjunction with two very sophisticated electronics systems in the plane known as ALR and ALQ(which are pretty classified in what they do, and my knowledge is way, way out of date). Towable jammers where around when I was in, but where used for livefire exercises, not as combat ECM.

Ahhhhh

I remember many an evening spent refilling those damned chaff buckets.

Then later suffering from the filiments intruding into the skin from the chaff.

 

[Rich2018]

A bit more advanced than "Window".