Army demos electronic jammer for helicopters — Defense Systems
The Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command CERDEC has demonstrated a new system that can be used both to locate electronic emitters on the battlefield — radios, remote-controlled improvised explosive devices, radars and other sources of electromagnetic radiation used by a potential adversary — and then jam them.
The system, called Sledgehammer, “is a combination of an airborne electronic support system named Airhammer, that was produced by L-3 Communications Applied Signal and Image Technology in Linthicum Heights, Md., and some existing government developed electronic attack capabilities,” said Kristen Kushiyama, business development coordinator for public affairs at CERDEC’s headquarters in Fort Monmouth, N.J. “It is flown and operated on board the rotary-wing vehicle, and it finds and jams signals from hostile forces. Sledgehammer can be installed and operational in about an hour on several versions of the UH-60,” she said.
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