Complex "Alabuga": a weapon that emits an electromagnetic pulse. Complex "Alabuga": a weapon that shoots with an electromagnetic pulse (5 photos) The Alabuga missile will leave a pile of metal from enemies
Pulse electromagnetic weapons, or so-called. “jammers” is a real type of weapon already undergoing testing Russian army. The United States and Israel are also conducting successful developments in this area, but have relied on the use of EMP systems to generate the kinetic energy of a warhead
Electronic suppression station 1L269 "Krasukha-2" in transport configuration
We took the path of a direct damaging factor and created prototypes of several combat systems at once - for ground forces, Air Force and Navy. According to experts working on the project, the development of the technology has already passed the stage of field testing, but now work is underway to correct errors and try to increase the power, accuracy and range of radiation. Today, our Alabuga, having exploded at an altitude of 200-300 meters, is capable of turning off all electronic equipment within a radius of 3.5 km and leaving a military unit of the battalion/regiment scale without communications, control, or fire guidance, while turning all existing enemy equipment into a pile of useless scrap metal. Except to surrender and give it to the advancing units of the Russian army heavy weapons As trophies, there are essentially no options left.
Electronics jammer
For the first time, the world saw a really working prototype of an electromagnetic weapon at the LIMA 2001 arms exhibition in Malaysia. An export version of the domestic “Ranets-E” complex was presented there. It is made on the MAZ-543 chassis, has a mass of about 5 tons, ensures guaranteed destruction of the electronics of a ground target, aircraft or guided munition at ranges of up to 14 kilometers and disruption of its operation at a distance of up to 40 km. Despite the fact that the firstborn created a real sensation in the world media, experts noted a number of its shortcomings. Firstly, the size of the effectively hit target does not exceed 30 meters in diameter, and secondly, the weapon is disposable - reloading takes more than 20 minutes, during which the miracle gun has already been shot down 15 times from the air, and it can only work on targets in the open terrain, without the slightest visual obstacles. It is probably for these reasons that the Americans abandoned the creation of such directed EMP weapons, concentrating on laser technologies. Our gunsmiths decided to try their luck and try to “bring to fruition” the technology of directed EMP radiation.
A specialist from the Rostec concern, who for obvious reasons did not want to reveal his name, in an interview with Expert Online, expressed the opinion that electromagnetic pulse weapons are already a reality, but the whole problem lies in the methods of delivering them to the target. “We have a project in progress to develop a complex electronic warfare classified as "OV" under the name "Alabuga". This is a missile whose warhead is a high-frequency electric generator magnetic field high power.
Based on active pulsed radiation, it looks like nuclear explosion, only without the radioactive component. Field tests have shown high efficiency block - not only radio-electronic, but also conventional electronic equipment of wired architecture, fails within a radius of 3.5 km. Those. not only takes the main communication headsets out of normal operation, blinding and stunning the enemy, but also actually leaves the whole unit without any local electronic systems control, including weapons. The advantages of such a “non-lethal” defeat are obvious - the enemy will only have to surrender, and the equipment can be received as a trophy. The only problem is the effective means of delivering this charge - it has a relatively large mass and the missile must be quite large, and, as a result, very vulnerable to destruction by air defense/missile defense systems,” the expert explained.
Interesting are the developments of NIIRP (now a division of the Almaz-Antey air defense concern) and the Physico-Technical Institute named after. Ioffe. While studying the impact of powerful microwave radiation from the ground on air objects (targets), specialists from these institutions unexpectedly received local plasma formations, which were obtained at the intersection of radiation flows from several sources. Upon contact with these formations air targets underwent enormous dynamic overloads and collapsed. The coordinated operation of microwave radiation sources made it possible to quickly change the focusing point, that is, to retarget at enormous speed or to accompany objects of almost any aerodynamic characteristics. Experiments have shown that the impact is effective even against ICBM warheads. In fact, these are no longer even microwave weapons, but combat plasmoids. Unfortunately, when in 1993 a team of authors presented a draft air defense/missile defense system based on these principles for consideration by the state, Boris Yeltsin immediately proposed joint development American President. And although cooperation on the project did not take place, perhaps this is what prompted the Americans to create the HAARP (High Freguencu Active Auroral Research Program) complex in Alaska - a research project to study the ionosphere and auroras. Let us note that for some reason that peaceful project is funded by the Pentagon’s DARPA agency.
Already entering service with the Russian army
To understand what place the topic of electronic warfare occupies in the military-technical strategy of the Russian military department, just look at the State Armaments Program until 2020. Of the 21 trillion rubles of the total GPV budget, 3.2 trillion (about 15%) is planned to be spent on the development and production of attack and defense systems using sources electromagnetic radiation. For comparison, in the Pentagon budget, according to experts, this share is much smaller - up to 10%. Now let's look at what can already be “touched”, i.e. those products that have reached series production and entered service over the past few years.
Mobile electronic warfare systems "Krasukha-4" suppress spy satellites, ground-based radars and aviation systems AWACS, completely blocks radar detection for 150–300 km, and can also cause radar damage to enemy electronic warfare means and connections. The operation of the complex is based on creating powerful interference at the main frequencies of radars and other radio-emitting sources. Manufacturer: JSC Bryansk Electromechanical Plant (BEMZ).
Electronic warfare equipment sea-based TK-25E provides effective protection ships various classes. The complex is designed to provide radio-electronic protection of an object from air- and ship-based radio-controlled weapons by creating active jamming. It is possible to interface the complex with various systems of the protected object, such as a navigation complex, radar station, automated system combat control. The TK-25E equipment ensures the creation various types interference with a spectrum width from 64 to 2000 MHz, as well as pulsed misinforming and simulating interference using copies of signals. The complex is capable of simultaneously analyzing up to 256 targets. Equipping the protected object with the TK-25E complex reduces the likelihood of its destruction by three or more times.
The multifunctional complex "Rtut-BM" has been developed and produced at KRET enterprises since 2011 and is one of the most modern systems EW. The main purpose of the station is to protect manpower and equipment from single and volley fire artillery ammunition equipped with radio fuses. Developer enterprise: OJSC All-Russian Scientific Research Institute "Gradient" (VNII "Gradient"). Similar devices are produced by Minsk KB RADAR. Note that up to 80% of Western shells are now equipped with radio fuses. field artillery, mines and uncontrollable rockets and almost all precision-guided ammunition, these are enough simple remedies allow you to protect troops from defeat, including directly in the zone of contact with the enemy.
The Sozvezdie concern produces a series of small-sized (portable, transportable, autonomous) jammers of the RP-377 series. With their help, you can jam GPS signals, and in a stand-alone version, equipped with power supplies, you can also place transmitters over a certain area, limited only by the number of transmitters. An export version of a more powerful system for suppressing GPS and weapon control channels is now being prepared. It is already a system of object and area protection against high-precision weapons. It is built according to a modular principle, which allows you to vary the area and objects of protection. Among the unclassified developments, MNIRTI products are also known - “Sniper-M” “I-140/64” and “Gigawatt”, made on the basis of car trailers. They are, in particular, used to test means of protecting radio engineering and digital systems for military, special and civilian purposes from damage by EMP.
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The element base of RES is very sensitive to energy overloads, and a flow of electromagnetic energy of a sufficiently high density can burn out semiconductor junctions, completely or partially disrupting their normal functioning. Low-frequency EMF creates an electromagnetic pulse
radiation at frequencies below 1 MHz, high-frequency EMF is affected by microwave radiation - both pulsed and continuous. Low-frequency EMI affects the object through interference to the wired infrastructure, including telephone lines, cables external power supply, feeding and retrieving information. High-frequency EMF directly penetrates into the radio-electronic equipment of an object through its antenna system. In addition to affecting the enemy's electronic resources, high-frequency electromagnetic radiation can also affect the skin and internal organs person. At the same time, as a result of their heating in the body, chromosomal and genetic changes, activation and deactivation of viruses, transformation of immunological and behavioral reactions are possible.
The main technical means of producing powerful electromagnetic pulses, which form the basis of low-frequency EMP, is a generator with explosive compression of the magnetic field. Another potential type of low frequency magnetic energy source high level may be a magnetodynamic generator driven by rocket fuel or explosive. When implementing high-frequency EMR, the following can be used as a generator of powerful microwave radiation: electronic devices, such as broadband magnetrons and klystrons, gyrotrons operating in the millimeter range, virtual cathode generators (vircators) using the centimeter range, free electron lasers and broadband plasma beam generators.
Enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex have created a powerful electromagnetic missile "Alabuga", which has a warhead with a generator electromagnetic field high power. It was reported that it was capable of covering an area of 3.5 kilometers with one blow and disabling all electronics, turning them into a “heap of scrap metal.”
Mikheev explained that “Alabuga” is not a specific weapon: an entire complex was completed under this code in 2011-2012 scientific research, during which the main directions for the development of electronic weapons of the future were determined.
"A very serious theoretical assessment was carried out and practical work on laboratory mock-ups and specialized testing grounds, during which the range of radio-electronic weapons and the degree of their impact on equipment was determined,” Mikheev said.
This impact can vary in intensity: “Starting with the usual interference effect with the temporary withdrawal of weapon systems and military equipment the enemy out of action up to its complete radio-electronic destruction, leading to energetic, destructive damage to the main electronic elements, boards, blocks and systems."
After the completion of this work, all data on its results were closed, and the topic of microwave weapons itself fell into the category of critical technologies with the highest classification of secrecy, Mikheev emphasized.
“Today we can only say that all these developments have been translated into specific development work on the creation of electromagnetic weapons: shells, bombs, missiles carrying a special explosive magnetic generator, in which, due to the energy of the explosion, a so-called microwave electromagnetic pulse is created , which disables all enemy equipment at a certain distance,” the interlocutor noted.
Similar developments are being carried out by all leading world powers - in particular, the USA and China, the KRET representative concluded.
Russia today is the only country in the world that is armed with ammunition equipped with electromagnetic generators, said Chief Editor magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland", member of the expert council of the military industrial complex board Viktor Murakhovsky.
This is how he commented on the words of Vladimir Mikheev, adviser to the first deputy general director of the Radioelectronic Technologies concern, who stated that Russia is creating electronic munitions capable of disabling enemy equipment due to a powerful microwave pulse.
“We have such standard ammunition - for example, such generators are in the warheads of anti-aircraft missiles, there are also shots for hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers equipped with such generators. In this area, we are at the forefront in the world; as far as I know, similar ammunition is not yet supplied to foreign armies. In the USA and China, such equipment is now only at the testing stage,” RIA Novosti quotes V. Murakhovsky.
The expert noted that today the Russian defense industry is working to increase the effectiveness of such ammunition, as well as to strengthen the electromagnetic pulse through new materials and new design designs. At the same time, Murakhovsky emphasized that calling such weapons “electromagnetic bombs” is not entirely correct, since today the Russian army only has anti-aircraft missiles and grenade launcher rounds equipped with such generators.
Speaking about radio-electronic weapons of the future, being developed today in Russia, the interlocutor cited the example of the “Microwave guns” project, which is currently at the research stage.
“At the research stage, there is a new product on a tracked chassis that generates radiation that can disable a drone at a great distance. This is exactly what is now colloquially called a “microwave gun,” said Murakhovsky.
For the first time, the world saw a really working prototype of an electromagnetic weapon at the LIMA 2001 arms exhibition in Malaysia. An export version of the domestic “Ranets-E” complex was presented there. It is made on the MAZ-543 chassis, has a mass of about 5 tons, ensures guaranteed destruction of the electronics of a ground target, aircraft or guided munition at ranges of up to 14 kilometers and disruption of its operation at a distance of up to 40 km. Despite the fact that the firstborn created a real sensation in the world media, experts noted a number of its shortcomings. Firstly, the size of the effectively hit target does not exceed 30 meters in diameter, and secondly, the weapon is disposable - reloading takes more than 20 minutes, during which the miracle gun has already been shot down 15 times from the air, and it can only work on targets in the open terrain, without the slightest visual obstacles. It is probably for these reasons that the Americans abandoned the creation of such directed EMP weapons, concentrating on laser technologies. Our gunsmiths decided to try their luck and try to “bring to fruition” the technology of directed EMP radiation.
Active pulse radiation produces something similar to a nuclear explosion, only without the radioactive component. Field tests have shown the high efficiency of the unit - not only radio-electronic, but also conventional electronic equipment of wired architecture fails within a radius of 3.5 km. Those. not only removes the main communication headsets from normal operation, blinding and stunning the enemy, but also actually leaves an entire unit without any local electronic control systems, including weapons. The advantages of such a “non-lethal” defeat are obvious - the enemy will only have to surrender, and the equipment can be received as a trophy. The only problem is the effective means of delivering this charge - it has a relatively large mass and the missile must be quite large, and, as a result, very vulnerable to destruction by air defense/missile defense systems,” the expert explained.
Interesting are the developments of NIIRP (now a division of the Almaz-Antey air defense concern) and the Physico-Technical Institute named after. Ioffe. While studying the impact of powerful microwave radiation from the ground on air objects (targets), specialists from these institutions unexpectedly received local plasma formations, which were obtained at the intersection of radiation flows from several sources. Upon contact with these formations, air targets underwent enormous dynamic overloads and were destroyed. The coordinated operation of microwave radiation sources made it possible to quickly change the focusing point, that is, to retarget at enormous speed or to accompany objects of almost any aerodynamic characteristics. Experiments have shown that the impact is effective even against ICBM warheads. In fact, these are no longer even microwave weapons, but combat plasmoids. Unfortunately, when in 1993 a team of authors submitted a draft air defense/missile defense system based on these principles to the state for consideration, Boris Yeltsin immediately proposed joint development to the American president. And although cooperation on the project did not take place, perhaps this is what prompted the Americans to create the HAARP (High Freguencu Active Auroral Research Program) complex in Alaska - a research project to study the ionosphere and auroras. Let us note that for some reason that peaceful project is funded by the Pentagon’s DARPA agency.
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The element base of RES is very sensitive to energy overloads, and a flow of electromagnetic energy of a sufficiently high density can burn out semiconductor junctions, completely or partially disrupting their normal functioning. Low-frequency EMF creates electromagnetic pulse radiation at frequencies below 1 MHz, high-frequency EMF is affected by microwave radiation - both pulsed and continuous. Low-frequency EMF affects the object through interference to the wired infrastructure, including telephone lines, external power cables, data supply and removal. High-frequency EMF directly penetrates into the radio-electronic equipment of an object through its antenna system. In addition to affecting the enemy's electronic resources, high-frequency electromagnetic radiation can also affect the skin and internal organs of a person. At the same time, as a result of their heating in the body, chromosomal and genetic changes, activation and deactivation of viruses, transformation of immunological and behavioral reactions are possible.
The main technical means of producing powerful electromagnetic pulses, which form the basis of low-frequency EMP, is a generator with explosive compression of the magnetic field. Another potential type of low-frequency, high-level magnetic energy source could be a magnetodynamic generator driven by rocket fuel or explosive. When implementing high-frequency EMR, electronic devices such as broadband magnetrons and klystrons, gyrotrons operating in the millimeter range, generators with a virtual cathode (vircators) using the centimeter range, free electron lasers and broadband plasma beams can be used as a generator of powerful microwave radiation. generators.
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This weapon belongs to the electromagnetic category, and has been developed for at least three decades in Russia and the USA, along with laser, in an atmosphere of special secrecy. The Daily Star takes very limited information from open sources, conscientiously retells it, but at the same time adds information of its own that should make the reader's eyes widen. That's why he's a tabloid.
So, we're talking about about the electromagnetic rocket “Alabuga”, which is being developed by the concern “Radio-Electronic Technologies” (KRET). Operating at an altitude of 200-300 meters above enemy positions, due to high-power radiation, it not only suppresses the operation of electronic devices - computers, radars, communication systems, homing heads of high-precision and guided weapons - but also renders them unusable. That is, it burns out electronic components. This effect is achieved within a radius of 3.5 kilometers. The radiation creates a high-frequency, high-power electromagnetic field generator. Neither power nor other characteristics are disclosed. The type of energy source powering the generator is also kept secret.
At the same time, “Alabuga” is a non-lethal weapon, since the microwave field does not cause real harm to enemy personnel.
However known facts It was clearly not enough for the tabloid. And the authors fantasized a little. Allegedly, it is impossible for soldiers to hide from deadly radiation even under 100 meters of earth. Which, of course, does not stand up to criticism. It is also reported that the radiation from Alabuga is capable of detonating shells located in the gun turrets of tanks. This is, of course, a little closer to reality. Because in a seemingly completely sealed tank there are inputs for radio waves, for example through antennas or optical channels. However, the signal power to detonate shells must be prohibitive. Because the shells will have to be heated to a critical temperature.
It must be said that the authors of the article went a bit too far when they stated that Alabuga is capable of disabling entire armies. But comparing an electromagnetic missile with a nuclear bomb is quite appropriate. Because in an explosion nuclear bomb a powerful electromagnetic pulse is also generated (up to 100 gigawatts), which produces exactly the same effect on electronics as the Alabuga radiation.
This was “brilliantly” proven by the Americans, who in 1958 exploded a thermonuclear charge with a power of 1.9 Mt in space. A powerful electromagnetic pulse disabled 9 satellites. In the Hawaiian Islands and even in a large part of Australia, radio communications and television broadcasting were lost for a long time, and interruptions in street lighting began.
Due to the special secrecy of the development, it is not known at what stage of readiness the Alabuga missile is. Three years ago, CEO of KRET Vladimir Mikheev reported that “Alabuga” is not the name of a specific product, but the name of research work, during which designers must receive answers to a number of the most complex issues. And only after receiving them, you can begin R&D, that is, the development of specific weapons.
However, Russia already has such weapons, fully operational. And for a long time now. True, it has not yet been adopted for service for reasons that we will discuss below. In 2001, at the Malaysian military equipment exhibition, a working prototype of the Ranets-E electromagnetic system, based on a MAZ-543 wheeled chassis and weighing about 5 tons, was presented.
"Satchel-E" is, in fact, anti-aircraft complex short-range, in which the damaging factor is not a rocket, but an electromagnetic pulse in the centimeter range with a duration of up to 20 nanoseconds and a power of 500 megawatts. Capable of neutralizing all types of aircraft - from drones to fighters and bombers, cruise missiles and all types of ammunition that use electronics in one way or another. At a distance of 8-14 kilometers, the pulse burns out electronic components, and up to 40 kilometers disrupts normal operation electronic circuits without destroying them. The advantages include a wide angle of propagation of electromagnetic radiation - 60 degrees.
The most important elements of this installation are electric generator diesel type, an electromagnetic pulse generator and a radar designed to detect targets that need to be suppressed. However, the installation has a connection with the location equipment of air defense systems, receiving data on targets from it.
There are two main disadvantages of the Rantz-E. Firstly, the target must be in direct radio visibility. That is, it should not be hidden behind the folds of the terrain. And cruise missiles are capable of flying at extremely low altitudes. Because electromagnetic microwave radiation is extinguished by encountered obstacles.
Secondly, 20 minutes pass between two “shots” of the electromagnetic gun, which are necessary in order to accumulate the necessary energy. This is a very serious drawback, because during a massive raid, when missiles or shells fly at intervals of 30-40 km, the Ranets-E becomes defenseless for 20 minutes after the first “shot”. During this time, the second echelon of enemy ammunition arrives. Of course, this disadvantage can be compensated for by increasing the number of installations, and then the interval between “shots” will be reduced. For ten “Knapsacks” it will be equal to 2 minutes. However this is too much expensive solution Problems. The military is not satisfied with it, and therefore “Ranets-E” is not accepted for service.
However, it can be reasonably assumed that this topic They didn’t give up, but continued to improve the installation. Because, firstly, as an air defense system, "Ranets-E" is very effective - due to the wide angle of radiation, there is no need to track targets and accurately aim at them before firing. Secondly, its operation is cheap, since it does not require “ Supplies", that is, fired missiles. But we know nothing about the progress of modernization due to the highest form of secrecy.
But it's extremely interesting topic, which was on the verge of transition from research to development work with the goal of building a prototype military weapons on new physical principles, was destroyed in 1993. In the 80s, as a result of work on a joint project of the Research Institute of Radio Instrument Engineering and the Physico-Technical Institute named after. Ioffe, achieved generation of local plasma formations in the atmosphere. They were obtained at the intersection of two or more streams of powerful electromagnetic radiation. Aircrafts, as well as ammunition, when crossing plasma nodes, received an impact that destroyed them. Moreover, the energy of such a plasmoid installation should have been enough to combat ICBM warheads.
As a result of laboratory research, such high speed reconfiguration of the focusing of electromagnetic beams, which is quite sufficient to track targets that have the highest aerodynamic and ballistic characteristics.
However, in the early 90s, work was stopped due to the cessation of funding. And in 1993 Boris Yeltsin I decided to make a “cunning move” - to continue development with American money. But already together with them. Yeltsin made a corresponding proposal Bill Clinton. American specialists carefully studied all the materials given to them for review. And they refused to cooperate. It is likely that they are developing the results obtained by Russian scientists.
To be fair, it should be said that the United States has independently achieved certain results in the field of creating electromagnetic weapons. Two years ago it was reported that the US Air Force Research Laboratory had created a missile similar to Alabuga. It is quite clear that we are not even talking about a prototype, but about a working layout. So it’s too early to talk about American electromagnetic weapons.
Turn off communications and electronic reconnaissance, make the homing heads of high-precision missiles and ammunition useless, and even turn off the control electronics of automatic loaders of tanks and armored vehicles. The new Russian electromagnetic missile “Alabuga” can do all this. Its appearance was announced by Vladimir Mikheev, adviser to the first deputy general director of the Radioelectronic Technologies concern (KRET).
These words caused serious panic in the West: “ Russia admitted that it has weapons systems more powerful than nuclear bombs A", - writes the British Daily Star. A combat unit with a high-power electromagnetic field generator is capable of covering an area of 3.5 kilometers with one blow of a powerful microwave pulse and disabling all electronics, turning them into a pile of scrap metal, they state with reference to experts English journalists. The British concern is understandable. Until recently, no one succeeded in using an electromagnetic bomb.
During the first Desert Storm in 1991, the Americans planned to detonate a nuclear warhead over Iraq with the main damaging factor being an electromagnetic pulse. He had to “turn off” the entire air defense system of Baghdad. But Washington never decided to do this. Atomic bomb, whatever one may say, but still nuclear weapon and its application is a precedent that violates international system security. The microwave pulse is a story of a different order. It can be used and done, as, it turns out, only Moscow can do today.
Speaking of new electromagnetic weapons, Vladimir Mikheev did not disclose its characteristics and features. The specialist only noted that “Alabuga” is not just one gun, missile or bomb, but a complex of scientific research in the field of using microwave radiation. Under this code, in 2011-2012, “a serious theoretical assessment and practical work was carried out at laboratory mock-ups and specialized testing grounds, during which the range of electronic weapons and the degree of their impact on equipment were determined,” Mikheev specified. According to the specialist, this can be like “a normal interference effect with temporary disabling of the enemy’s weapons systems and military equipment up to its complete radio-electronic destruction, leading to energetic, destructive damage to the main electronic elements, boards, blocks and systems.”
Currently, all data on the Alabuga project is closed. The topic of microwave weapons is in the category of critical technologies with the highest classification of secrecy and it is impossible to talk about the concrete implementation of ideas. However, according to Mikheev, all developments will form the basis for the creation of electromagnetic weapons: shells, bombs, missiles carrying a special explosive magnetic generator. However, all this allows you to dream up. Despite all the secrecy of Concern KRET’s activities in the field of electronic countermeasures, there are still things that can be discussed openly.
For example, during the Zapad-2017 strategic exercise, electronic warfare units repelled a massive missile strike cruise missiles. With the help of the Moskva-1 complex, military personnel of the unit stationed in the Urals ensured the protection of critical facilities from a massive enemy air strike. The use of the complex made it possible to completely disorganize the management of conditional sabotage and reconnaissance groups operating in the rear. Moscow-1 blocked cellular communication conditional enemy. And this is from a distance of 4 thousand kilometers from the immediate theater of operations.
"Moscow-1" has been operating in the army since 2015. Its functionality allows you to scan the airspace, detect and transmit data about the enemy to other electronic warfare systems and air defense systems. At the same time, the complex operates in passive radar mode, remaining invisible to the enemy. So the British have something to be sad about. Moreover, unlike “Moscow-1”, “Alabuga” will not just be some kind of separate machine, but will turn into the warhead of a rocket, bomb or other ammunition. This means that it can be used locally directly on the battlefield.
Totally agree Lately The Ministry of Defense received 18 of the latest models of special-purpose equipment: the Borisoglebsk-2, Alurgit, Infauna, Krasukha-2O, Krasukha-S4, Moskva-1, Parodist, Lorandit-M complexes. , “Leer-2”, “Leer-3”, “Lesochek”, “Less”, “Magnesium-REB”, “Pole-21”, etc. All of them are capable of not only protecting equipment and personnel from precision missiles and bombs, but also to make our troops “invisible” on the battlefield. All this equipment has been tested at the Syrian training ground. It worked not only in the interests of the Russian army in real combat conditions, but also operated in close proximity to similar systems of the US and Israeli armies, potentially capable of “blocking” and “jamming.” Apparently it didn't work. There is no other way to explain so much noise in the West around yet another Alabuga complex.
Creation of weapons on new physical principles- one of the unconditional priorities of the state armament program. During the Army 2017 exhibition and forum, Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Borisov specifically noted this. In the presence of journalists, he signed a contract for the purchase of weapons based on the new physical principles of “Zadir-16”. All that is known about it is that it was created by the Russian Federal Nuclear Center of the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF). This institute was created in 1946 as part of a project to develop the first Soviet nuclear bomb. The center specializes in the production of ultra-powerful pulse emitters. Isn't it the kind that the new Russian electromagnetic missiles, bombs and other ammunition need? ■
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This fall, several Western publications, for example, the British tabloid Daily Star, “advertised” Russia’s new weapon, which is described as “more powerful than atomic bomb" We are talking about electronic weapons, in particular, the newest electromagnetic missile "Alabuga", which can disable enemy electronics within a radius of 3.4 miles.
So, we are talking about the Alabuga electromagnetic rocket, which is being developed by the Radioelectronic Technologies concern (KRET). Operating at an altitude of 200-300 meters above enemy positions, due to high-power radiation, it not only suppresses the operation of electronic devices - computers, radars, communication systems, homing heads of high-precision and guided weapons - but also renders them unusable. That is, it burns out electronic components. The radiation creates a high-frequency, high-power electromagnetic field generator. Neither power nor other characteristics are disclosed. The type of energy source powering the generator is also kept secret.
Western journalists write that such weapons are capable of disabling entire armies, electronic equipment aircraft and missile warheads, as well as automatic loading mechanisms for tanks. Moreover, as the publication notes, the new Russian weapons can cause the detonation of ammunition inside enemy military equipment and even destroy manpower hidden underground at a depth of up to 100 meters.
Such fantasies, of course, cause affection due to the fact that the same “Alabuga” is a non-lethal weapon, since the microwave field does not cause real harm to enemy personnel. As for the words that the Alabuga radiation is capable of detonating shells located in the gun turrets of tanks, this is a little closer to reality, since even a practically sealed tank has inputs for radio waves, for example, through antennas or optical channels. However, the signal power to heat the shells to a critical temperature and, accordingly, detonate, must be prohibitive.
In general, comparing an electromagnetic missile with a nuclear bomb is quite appropriate, since the explosion of a nuclear bomb also generates a powerful electromagnetic pulse (up to 100 gigawatts), which produces exactly the same effect on electronics as the Alabuga radiation.
In 1958 efficiency similar weapons This was proven by the Americans who exploded a thermonuclear charge with a capacity of 1.9 Mt in space. A powerful electromagnetic pulse disabled 9 satellites, and in the Hawaiian Islands and even in a large part of Australia, radio communications and television broadcasting were lost for a long time, and interruptions in street lighting began.
Due to the special secrecy of the development, it is not known at what stage of readiness the Alabuga missile is, but Russia already has such a weapon, fully operational. Moreover, it has existed for a long time, but for a number of reasons, it has not yet been adopted for service...