Decorate radars and rockets: Bae Systems creates a reb bast to protect fighters (video)
It is reported that DBD will expand the opportunities to assist pilots in tasks, especially in airspace with a high degree of counteraction. What extended opportunities will have DBD - does not disclose. However, the name, Dual Band Decoy, indicates that one of the features of technology will be the work in two separate ranges.
According to Defense Express military portal, DBD will, in fact, be a modernized version of the towed fallacy target An/ALE-55, which has also been developed in Bae Systems, which is supplied to American deck f/A-18 fighter fighters. An/Ale-55 acts as follows: the aircraft releases and entails a module associated with it. The module is equipped with a powerful complex of EWS, which independently analyzes the radio space and interferes with hostile radar stations (radar) to detect an aircraft.
If the enemy's radar still seized the aircraft, the module becomes a goal for anti -aircraft missiles, simulating its radar signature. All these features An/ALE-55 performs automatically. The publication also noted that the United States has long been using towed false goals to protect aircraft. Yes, the most common system in the US Air Force is An/Ale-50 from Raytheon. It has been delivered since 1995 and has been used, in particular, on F-16 fighters.
Recall that the US Air Force was entrusted to the Southwestern Research Institute (SWRI) to develop a new "cognitive" system of EW. Scientists will have to create SI-algorithms that will help to identify and respond to unknown radar threats of the enemy in real time.