Sunday, July 23, 2017

EWMS.

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See my previous blog entry item # 2. The crop duster close-air-support warplane.

As was noted NO gun.

Also NO dispenser for cluster-bomb munitions.

BUT DOES HAVE AN OPTION FOR THE ELECTRONIC COUNTER-MEASURES POD!

From this You Tube video the various weapons as carried by the Archangel described.

Electronic warfare counter-measures pod the ALQ-213. Detects the signature of a shoulder-fired pea-shooter infra-red guided surface-air-missile of the Soviet/Russian Grail type and disperses counter-measures. [presumably flares].

Originally a Danish Air Force design for their F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, the AN/ALQ-213(V), called a Electronic Warfare Management System (EWMS) . . . its function is electronics countermeasures suite controller. It is now used on different aircraft, by different countries, all with the goal of reducing workload, especially on single-seat aircraft. It also assists the crew in fusing the information from the multiple on-board electronic warfare subsystems.

This counter-measures pod greatly [?] enhances survivability in the non-permissive and counter-insurgency environment

NO gun and NO cluster-bomb dispenser. Archangel does not need? Weaponry and ordnance already available and being carried sufficient as it is??

Evidently at some point during development it was decided to fit a gun to the warplane? That image accompany this blog entry was of the GAU-19 multi-barrel 12.7mm gun [capable of carrying] 2,900 rounds. So such an option [gun] might be available.

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