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Russia's Air Force received first batch of new Mi-8MPTR-1 electronic warfare helicopters.
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The Russian Air
Force (VVS) received three new Mi-8MTPR-1 electronic warfare (EW) helicopters
on 4 March. The Mi-8MTPR-1 is a standard Mi-8MTV-5-1 with a ‘Rychag-AV’
active jamming station installed onboard. The helicopters are designed
to be able to detect and suppress electronic command-and-control systems
as well as the radars of surface-to air and air-to-air missiles.
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 New Mi-8MTPR-1 electronic warfare (EW) helicopter equipped with Rychag-AV active jamming station |
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The
EW helicopters will be deployed at a Russia's Western Military District
air base. Additional Mi-8MTPR-1s are currently under construction, with
the Russian Ministry of Defence is set to eventually receive 18 of the
EW helicopters.
Igor Nasenkov first
deputy director general of the Radioelectronic Technologies Concern
(KRET) stated that the Rychag-AV active jamming station mounted onboard
provides collective protection for fixed-wing and rotor-wing aircraft,
unmanned aerial vehicles, land vehicles and surface ships within an
area of several hundred kilometres. This station can suppress various
targets simultaneously and can be installed both on helicopters and
on ships, fixed-wing aircraft, and land vehicles. |
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