Core Component Jammer promo

The Core Component Jammer (CCJ) could be the next big thing in electronic warfare. Mounted on the wings of a B-52s, these jamming pods would wipe out enemy radar tracking from hundreds of miles away, clearing the airspace for air-to-ground strikes by fighters, bombers and, possibly, UAVs.

This assumes, of course, that the CCJ will survive the US Air Force's byzantine budgeting process, and, of course, the gauntlet of technical challenges that surely lie ahead.

For now, all we have to show for the CCJ is this very interesting marketing video made by Boeing. I found this lying around on a table with other give-aways at Boeing's exhibit booth at the Air Force Association's Air & Space 2008 convention in Washington DC.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Electronic
• Warfare
• Boeing
• CCJ
• jammer
• Core
• Component
• Jammer
• bomber

[Postie218]

USAF, oh yea.

[maxdelbruck]

Death to air defence!

[arnaage]

Couple of things. B-52 should be out of the range of the IADS - which is why they call it "standoff jamming". As for slow, and unavailable - the speed is similar to both the the B-1 and B-2 and availability is far superior to both of them. B-52 has a crew of 5 not 12.

[S300V]

Very interesting video. Hard to find such stuff, even on the net.

[BOGOWA22]

What if the IADS used home-on-jam mode? B52 would be the biggest magnet on enemy radar screen.

Besides, B52 airframes are too slow, old and unavailable; one [accidental] loss means losing a crew of a dozen, by the way.