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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: NJQA on December 08, 2019, 1350 UTC

Title: Russian EW
Post by: NJQA on December 08, 2019, 1350 UTC

The Russians use Icom and AOR receivers?

https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/murmansk-bn-hf-ew-complex/

Title: Re: Russian EW
Post by: Josh on December 08, 2019, 2309 UTC

They (Russians) make their own RACAL/Watkins Johnson class sdrs for gov/commercial/spooks but for this setup they deploy Icoms. I wonder if it's due they desire to export the units with receivers they are comfortable with rather than exporting spook stuff they keep for themselves?

I doubt it's a cost factor bearing in mind that these things become a huge target in time of open hostilities, with the loss of a cheap radio rather than the cost of a spook rig along with the vehicles and men when the attack comes.

Title: Re: Russian EW
Post by: BoomboxDX on December 09, 2019, 0743 UTC

According to one of the linked vids, Russian EW, as a whole, is pretty advanced. Even shuts down Aegis systems, apparently.

ETA: Of course, that could just have been Russian propaganda.

Here's a Popular Mechanics article on Russian EW, including a mention of the Murmansk-BN system:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26167/russia-secret-e-weapons/