electronic warfare - training services (EWTS)

This capability provides an integrated package for Electronic Warfare (EW) training across all operational environments. Currently in service with the Australian Defence Force, this customised solution integrates a range of electronic systems and has been designed and built to meet the customer's needs.

Defence forces today are more reliant than ever on the electromagnetic spectrum for the conduct of operations and must operate in an electronic environment that contains everything from the basic EW techniques to complex overlaid EW counter measure and threat scenarios.

Raytheon Australia developed the effective EWTS solution based on a highly-modified Lear 35 aircraft crewed by two pilots and one or two EW Tactical Co-ordinators operating the suite of EW equipment.

The final mission system architecture provides an innovative solution to a complex task and is based around the following components:

• Elisra AES-210 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Receiver
• Chameleon IIIB multiple channel Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM)-based Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) system manufactured by EWsT in the UK
• a dual transceiver variant of the USQ-113 communications jammer installed in the USN EA-6B Prowler aircraft
• ALE-43 chaff dispensing system
• two independent threat simulation systems
• high-speed RF switch matrix and a network of high power travelling wave tubes, and
• fore and aft antennas, coupled with low loss radomes, giving coverage of the electro-magnetic spectrum from 0.8 to 18 GHz.