08 October 2021
by Richard Scott
The Nulka decoy is an expendable soft-kill countermeasure designed to seduce radar-guided anti-ship missiles of their terminal homing section. (Australian Department of Defence)
L3Harris is to produce a collection of next-generation digital warfare (EW) payloads to equip the MK 234 Nulka lively offboard decoy system utilized by the US and Australian navies.
Nulka is an expendable soft-kill countermeasure designed to seduce radar-guided anti-ship missiles of their terminal homing section. Under a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) contract, doubtlessly price over USD120 million, the corporate will provide Advanced Decoy Architecture Program (ADAP) payloads to fulfill each US Navy (USN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) wants.
The unique Nulka digital decoy cartridge combines a hovering rocket payload service automobile (produced by BAE Systems Australia) atop, which is a mounted broadband radio-frequency (RF) repeater payload (produced by Lockheed Martin) that radiates a big ship-like radar cross-section designed to seduce RF homing anti-ship missiles away from their supposed targets. In USN service, the Nulka spherical is fired from the MK 53 decoy launching system.
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