Electronic Warfare
The U.S. Armed Services must suppress enemy air defenses to be able to accomplish their war fighting objectives and survive. To achieve this suppression, the services use specialized aircraft designed to neutralize, destroy, or temporarily degrade enemy air defense systems through either physical attack or electronic warfare. Specialized aircraft use electronic warfare devices, called jammers, to temporarily suppress enemy air defenses by transmitting electronic signals that disrupt enemy radar and communications. Other specialized aircraft use anti-radiation missiles that home in on radar used by surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery systems to physically degrade or destroy them. Because suppression aircraft are charged with protecting all of the services' aviation assets in hostile airspace, the suppression mission necessarily crosses individual service lines.
Electronic Warfare Solutions from Altera
Altera® solutions provide applications such as aircraft self-protection systems and tactical surveillance and intelligence systems for all branches of the armed forces. Other major business areas include missile and space electronics, infrared imaging, and automated mission planning systems. Military and Aerospace customers can design and manufacture a wide range of advanced aerospace products and electronic systems for government and commercial customers using Altera’s latest FPGAs such as the Stratix® II and Stratix families.
Programs in support of military aircraft use Altera’s technologies to meet the integrated avionics requirements' "First Look, First Kill" capability. Altera's support of the joint strike fighter (JSF) program enables engineers to apply Altera technology to a suite of integrated avionics applications, such as:
- Radar warning
- Electronics support measures
- Jammer systems
- Missile launch detection
- Electronic countermeasures
- Flight recorder and operational debrief system
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