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U.S. Has Sent Threat-Emitters To Ukraine To
Confuse Russian Aircraft
Brian Everstine December 04, 2022
SIMI VALLEY, California—The U.S.
military has sent threat emitters, built to replicate aircraft and weapons for
American pilots in training, to Ukraine to confuse Russian aircraft in the
latest innovative way for the Pentagon to assist Kyiv.
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
Charles Q. Brown Jr. says the low-cost emitters were built for ranges inside
the U.S. but now are in the hands of Ukrainians. The emitters can replicate
surface-to-air missiles and aircraft, and are a cheap, innovative way to
further complicate the air picture for Russia.
Brown raised the example as a way
the Pentagon can find quick ways to address problems during a crisis, like the
delivery of Raytheon AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) to
Ukraine that the Pentagon announced in August.
Before the invasion, Brown said the
idea of modifying a HARM to work on a Mikoyan MiG-29 would have been
immediately dismissed as too difficult. But in this time of crisis, the
Pentagon and contractors were able to make it work.
“So there are ways to work with
industry and those who actually build systems to figure out the details and
move forward in certain areas because of a need and driving a sense of
urgency,” he says.
The military and industry needs to
keep this thinking going, and not “go back to our regularly scheduled program,”
he says. “We’ve got to think crisis-like ahead of a crisis so that we are
better postured and prepared.”
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