interesting, they are firing a Harm missile with the pod.
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It is CGI, but it makes sense. AFAIK the EDPOD will replace thisinteresting, they are firing a Harm missile with the pod.
No. That's for HARM. EHPOD(EWPOD) is a a more comprehensive EW/ECM pod, similar to but more powerful than AN/ALQ-211.It is CGI, but it makes sense. AFAIK the EDPOD will replace this
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EHPOD and EDPOD are not the same, please look it up.No. That's for HARM. EHPOD(EWPOD) is a a more comprehensive EW/ECM pod, similar to but more powerful than AN/ALQ-211.
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This Defence Turkey article from 5 years ago is the most detailed piece on EHPOD. I have no idea how delayed this is, but it's a great capability to have, even moreso that it's ours and that we don't have to share it with anyone.
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F-16 Uçağı Elektronik Harp Podu (EHPOD) projesinde Kritik Tasarım Safhası Tamamlandı!
TÜBİTAK koordinasyonunda milli imkanlarla yürütülen F-16 Uçağı Elektronik Harp Podu (EHPOD) Sistemi Geliştirilmesi Projesi’nde Kritik Tasarım Safhası tamamlanmış olup entegrasyon faaliyetleri devam etmektedir. Sahip olduğu DRFM teknolojisi sayesinde tehdit radara karşı hem ‘coherent’, hem de...www.defenceturkey.com
On the other hand, TUBITAK BILGEM has been developing a Tactical Electronic Support Pod (EDPOD) also for the F-16 Aircraft in addition to the EHPOD. The EDPOD features an outer Shell similar to the external fuel tank of 300 gallons at the centerline of F-16 Aircrafts as well. Unveiled at TUBITAK’s booth at IDEF ‘19, the EDPOD System will contribute to the Electronic Order of Battle (EOB) by detecting and identifying threat radars and utilizing their geographical position data. Actually, Electronic Warfare starts way before facing the enemy’s aircraft and/or their missiles. Initially, the information and data on the surface, underwater, air and land platforms and the spectral bands/ frequencies of the radars and sensors over them and on the weapon systems they carry (potential threats) should be collected via the EDT/ELINT Systems and this data should be installed to the EW Data Bank during peace time and a reliable and high-resolution ‘Electronic Order of Battle’ that will contain all potential threats [surface, underwater, air and land-based] in the area of operation should be prepared. Because the reaction is launched upon the formation of the EOB and on account of the EOB previously prepared, the friendly components’ control over the zone will be facilitated. The tactical EDPOD System is capable of detecting threat radars via the Wide-Band and Narrow-Band Receivers over it. After identification, the arrival direction, frequency, pulse width, pulse amplitude, pulse repetition frequency, antenna scanning and inter-pulse modulation parameters are generated. Through the utilization of the arrival direction of the radars, their geographical positions are calculated. The EHPOD System records the contact parameters, location info, Pulse Descriptor Word (PDW) values and raw Intermediate Frequency data of the threat radars for post-operation analysis. It transmits the threat data it acquires to the other EHPODs in the operation field and to the Ground Support System via the Link-16 datalink network. The EDPOD System enables the analysis of the recordings it makes through the software on the Ground Support System. As a result of these analyses, the EHPOD and EDPOD Systems will contribute to the update of the National Joint EW Data Bank