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By the time they are inducted in Turkish airforce in a few years we could see more enemy air forces employing long range RAM jet BVRAAM with home on jamming seekers along with SAMs of same type.
How will HavaSOJ counter such a threat?
First of all, New generation BVR missiles are difficult to detect. Their engine burns out a small time period after launch. This makes them nearly thermally stealth for fighters until a distance.
They are difficult to jamming because they have a two way data-link between missile and launching platform. In addition, their active radar seekers are activated in terminal phase. To jamming missile’s active seeker, You have just a few second which makes it almost impossible. Suppose that BVR missile is jammed inside such a small time. This time, Two way data-link allow pilot to guide missile to re-track enemy targets. Even if pilot does not control the missile, Home-on jamming seeker allow missile to track the source of jammer.
so instead of wasting time to jamming coming BVR missile, The stand off jammer aircrafts mostly attack on the main radar source guiding the missile in order to cut the communication infrastructure between missile and fighter/ground control radars until missile reaches into terminal phase. If you have an advanced link system to deliver the control of missile to other units, Jammer aircrafts could even face more difficulty...
What I mean the modern AA missiles are not easy targets to jamming. The missile designer took many precuations to make them more lethal so jammer aircrafts are working from stand-off ranges to spoil the game of enemy in such a dangerous environment. If you want to win an aerial combat, you should avoid of being shot at first. The side who see other side to fire missile first, will mostly survive last. HavaSOJ will provide powerful jamming environment to make enemy radars not to see their targets first.
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