Sensor solution provider HENSOLDT has developed a modular airborne electronic combat system: Kalaetron Attack. By neutralizing enemy fire control radars at different distances, it preserves freedom of movement for the air forces that deploy it and their allies, even when faced with state-of-the-art air defense systems.
Kalaetron Attack is a new addition to the Kalaetron electronic warfare product family, which uses fully digitalized hardware and artificial intelligence to detect radar-based threats to air forces in record time and neutralize them with targeted electronic countermeasures (ECM).
“Our Kalaetron Integral uses the latest sensor technology to detect radar-based threats early on,” explained Celia Pelaz, Head of HENSOLDT’s Spectrum Dominance & Airborne Solutions Division.
Active electronic jamming component
“Kalaetron Attack now adds an active electronic jamming component, which either dazzles or deceives threatening systems using accurately replicated jamming signals. In this way, Kalaetron Attack expands the operational options of fighter aircraft, which can now also operate in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) zones.”
Kalætron Attack detects and identifies air defense positions very quickly over a wide frequency range"
Due to its fully digital design, Kalaetron Attack detects and identifies air defense positions very quickly over a wide frequency range. The unit uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to recognize new threat patterns from a huge amount of collected pulses. This is especially important for identifying the latest air defense radar systems which cover an extremely wide frequency range or hop between particular frequencies in fractions of a second.
Electronic combat role
Kalaetron Attack can be flexibly adjusted to changing threats using innovative antenna designs with active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology, fully digital signal processing and AI algorithms. The Kalaetron product family thus forms the basis for enabling fighter aircraft to not only take on an electronic combat role (ECR) and perform escort jamming for aircraft units, but also to protect them from a great distance away through stand-off jamming.
Experience from recent conflicts has shown that such equipment designed to counter the threat posed by the latest air defense systems will be essential for aircraft deployed in the future. With ‘Kalaetron Attack’, HENSOLDT, as the German Sensor House, would like to provide a national answer to the luWES program (luWES = luftgestützte Wirkung im elektromagnetischen Spektrum) and contribute substantially to future European defense cooperation programs such as FCAS.
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