Piotr Butowski - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
14 August 2017
Russia has shown for the first time its new Ilyushin Il-22PP
Porubshchik special mission aircraft. The ‘escort jammer’ aircraft made its
public debut on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Russian air force
over Kubinka on 12 August.
The Il-22P is a signals intelligence (SIGINT) and
stand-off-jamming platform that has been built around a converted Il-22
‘Coot-B’ airframe, which is itself a theatre-level airborne command post and
radio relay aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-18D turboprop airliner.
While the Il-22PP retains the airframe and power plant of
the Il-22, it has four large fairings located symmetrically on both sides of
the fuselage. These contain antennas of the L-415 electronic countermeasures
(ECM) system made by the KNIRTI institute of Kaluga. Another antenna is fitted
to the tail, while a further antenna is located under the fuselage. A fixed pod
beneath the fuselage contains 16 32-round 26 mm UV-26M chaff/flare launchers
for self defence; two more 14-round 50 mm (2-inch) launchers are built into the
under-fuselage. The aircraft has a livery resembling that of the civilian
Aeroflot airline, although it carried the inscription ‘Russia Air Force’ and
the red star marking. It also has the inscription 'Il-18' on the nose.
According to the Myasishchev design bureau, which is
responsible for the conversion, "the airplane is intended for detection
and suppression of state-of-the-art secretive and jam-proof systems of combat
control of various functions". These are "radars, guidance channels
of surface-to-air missile systems, mid-course flight path correction channels
of cruise missiles, as well as tactical data exchange networks such as Link 16.
According to RBTH 3 were already delivered to the Russian Air Force in 2016.
According to the Izvestia newspaper, the aircraft will
join an electronic warfare unit of the 117th military transport air regiment.
The servicemen there have already started the training necessary to operate
these aircraft, according to the media outlet. Source
Il-22PP Porubschik electronic countermeasures plane:
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