Kalaetron Attack
Airborne jamming familyThe challenge
Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) plays a critical role in modern combat as modern combat systems use the electromagnetic spectrum in some capacity.
Electronic Attack (EA) is a popular area within EW, allowing forces to actively jam, disrupt and spoof adversary electronic signals to gain an advantage on the battlefield.
Example: As soon as a fighter aircraft takes off from Germany, it is already within the ranges of integrated air defence systems (IADS) situated in the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian territory between Lithuania and Poland.
These Russian IADS are a big threat to fighters and other enabling aircraft. The ability to disable, deceive, degrade and deny these systems the use of the electromagnetic spectrum is becoming an important requirement.
Our solution
Leveraging over 50 years of experience in the development of EW technologies, HENSOLDT has developed Kalaetron Attack, an airborne EA solution that is part of the wider Kalaetron self-protection family of systems.
The AESA- and DRFM-based system allows for digital targeting and jamming of a signal, and is able to jam over ten threats simultaneously and offer protection against attack from multiple sources. It can be controlled from an aircraft cockpit, and can integrate with existing interfaces.
Kalaetron Attack can be autonomously operated, and the 360° electronic support measures (ESM) capability – that passively detects and identifies threats – can be operating in the background, cross-referencing with an existing library to alert the pilot to what it considers to be a threat.
Features and benefits
Features
EW AESA with GaN solid state amplifiers
- Instant multi-beam capability
- Multi-threat in fast time multiplex
- CW capability (100% duty cycle)
- Different polarisations possible
- Direction finding
- Wide field of view
- Inherent beam stabilisation for agile flight manoeuvres
Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM)
- Included EA processor for mission management
- Advanced jamming techniques generator
- Wide instantaneous bandwidth
- Interface to onboard ESM systems
- Dual channel
- Autonomous or user controlled jamming
- Pulse and time domain samples streaming
Spectrum Battle Management Suite (SBMS)
- Threat library generation
- Mission planning
- Intuitive map centric user interface
- Post mission analysis
- Integrated ESM functionality
- Open architecture
Benefits
- Flight tested
- Highly scalable and adaptable architecture
- High EIRP enables stand-off range jamming
- AI-supported multi-target ident and attack
- Combinable jamming techniques
- Predictive PRI-tracking
- Proven software suite for all stages of mission
Configuration
Kalaetron Attack is available in three different versions:
Stand-off jamming
- Long distance jamming conducted outside weapon engagement zone (WEZ)
- Combined radar and comms jamming
- Software defined, modular and scalable technical solution
- Adaptable for different platforms
- In line with NATO demand and operational requirements
Escort jamming
- Gain spectrum dominance at the required distance
- Podded or integrated solution
- Protect own forces from enemy air defence systems
- Suppress or degrade opponents’ electromagnetic capability
- Combined solution for ESM and ECM application
Stand-in jamming
- Enables missions / operations in close proximity to hostile air defence systems
- Complements airborne jamming solutions
- Preemptive EW measures to counter battlefield threats
- Software defined, modular and scalable solution