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According to the report by Aviation Week, the U.S. has sent threat-emitters to Ukraine to “scare away” Russian aircraft. The joint threat emitter (JTE) air defense simulator developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation creates special signals that simulate the operation of air defenses aimed to confuse Russian aircraft.
JTE is a mobile air defense electronic warfare threat simulator that provides high-fidelity replication of surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery threats for aircrew training, according to Northrop. It is easily relocatable, reactive to aircrew and aircraft for fast jet, fixed-wing and rotary-wing defensive measures, and can be rapidly reprogrammed with new threat parameters.
The system offers realistic effective radiated power levels that has the capability to simultaneously simulate different types of threats in the surface-to-air missile family, including those categorized as single-digit and double-digit threats.
By May 2019, the USAF deployed 30 of these systems both in the US and around the world.
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The Kiev regime is begging its Western patrons for the most modern weapons but the aid packages often include outdated or irrelevant weapons. The JTE was likely supplied instead of Patriot air defense systems about which Kiev dreams so much.
Two emitters of signals that stimulate the work of air defense cost the Pentagon only $ 10.4 million, which is significantly cheaper than any real air defense complex.
The JTE was created for training purposes. It is aimed to help pilots learn how to bypass enemy air defenses. The Pentagon decided to test this system in the real combat operations in Ukraine. So far, the effectiveness of the JTEs on the front lines is yet to be verified.
It seems that the simulators may confuse Russian pilots. However, according to military sources, they are unlikely to be effective against Russian high-precision missiles and UAVs.
