Military Discussions, U. S. Navy, Radar, Russians

2015-08-29T18:14:32-04:00

Is the US Navy's Aegis radar still susceptible to Russian Electronic Warfare? Can anyone on RP comment?

Tom Clancy’s latest, ‘Under Fire”, mentions the Aegis Radar aboard the USS John Cook, DDG-75 being disabled after overflights by a Russian aircraft in Apr 2014.

Apparently the ’Fencer” airplane mounted an EW pod called a Khibiny part of a larger EW system
the Borisoglebsk-2 that can ‘perhaps’ disable satellite and GPS systems.

Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 29 at 2015 6:52 PM

2015-08-29T18:52:25-04:00

Can't vouch for the AEGIS except to say it's amazing. Also I love how realistic Tom Clancy's books are even when being far-fetched. My favorite author.

Response by SN Greg Wright made Aug 29 at 2015 6:54 PM

2015-08-29T18:54:56-04:00

CSM Charles Hayden I believe that's info that's classified, CSM, so I'm not sure you'll get an answer here.

I could be wrong.

Response by CPO Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 29 at 2015 9:55 PM

2015-08-29T21:55:36-04:00

As SN Greg Wright stated, the actual answer to this is classified (speaking with experience on this matter). The answers that are on wikipedia are generalized for a wide array of radar systems.