Osprey helicopter-airplane equipped with electronic warfare, intelligence collection system
The system enables the aircraft, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, to jam enemy signals on the battlefield, collect intelligence and carry out various electronic warfare missions
Dan Arkin
| 29/06/2021
By FOX 52 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35908368
The U.S. Navy's Osprey hybrid helicopter-airplane has been equipped for the first time with an advanced system that blocks and jams hostile signals and collects intelligence. The Boeing MV-22 Osprey, which the IAF is interested in acquiring, was equipped with an Intrepid Tiger II electronic warfare system, a type that has previously been installed in F-18 Hornet fighters and C-130 Hercules transport planes.
The system enables the Osprey, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, to jam enemy signals on the battlefield, collect intelligence and carry out various electronic warfare missions. U.S. Navy Capt. Michael Orr, head of the Naval Air Systems Command's Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Program Office, told The Drive website that it was the first time for this electronic warfare system to be integrated into a pod carried by Osprey aircraft.
The aircraft is intended mainly for rapid transport of special forces to locations that are difficult to reach. In general, they are armed with 70mm laser-guided rockets. In the past, there was an intention to integrate a version of the Intrepid Tiger system into F-35 stealth fighters although they are already equipped with other electronic warfare suites.
The system enables the aircraft, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, to jam enemy signals on the battlefield, collect intelligence and carry out various electronic warfare missions
By FOX 52 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35908368
The U.S. Navy's Osprey hybrid helicopter-airplane has been equipped for the first time with an advanced system that blocks and jams hostile signals and collects intelligence. The Boeing MV-22 Osprey, which the IAF is interested in acquiring, was equipped with an Intrepid Tiger II electronic warfare system, a type that has previously been installed in F-18 Hornet fighters and C-130 Hercules transport planes.
The system enables the Osprey, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, to jam enemy signals on the battlefield, collect intelligence and carry out various electronic warfare missions. U.S. Navy Capt. Michael Orr, head of the Naval Air Systems Command's Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Program Office, told The Drive website that it was the first time for this electronic warfare system to be integrated into a pod carried by Osprey aircraft.
The aircraft is intended mainly for rapid transport of special forces to locations that are difficult to reach. In general, they are armed with 70mm laser-guided rockets. In the past, there was an intention to integrate a version of the Intrepid Tiger system into F-35 stealth fighters although they are already equipped with other electronic warfare suites.
