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Capabilities to combat helicopters by warships of Polish Navy in the light of the development of active systems to counteract sets manpads Cover

Capabilities to combat helicopters by warships of Polish Navy in the light of the development of active systems to counteract sets manpads

Open Access
|Sep 2018

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of the threats to ships of the Polish Navy resulting from the implementation systems of active neutralization for missiles of MANPADS (e.g. Grom, Igla, Mistral) to the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

The paper describes the most popular sea anti-aircraft missile sets based on MANPADS missiles and the capabilities of Russian multi-sensor systems for protection of Vitebsk class helicopters and aircraft (President-S). The article contains conclusions from the analysis of the capabilities of weapon systems and active disruption systems in the confrontation of a present ship with a modern combat helicopter and proposals for solving this problem by means of the diversification of missile of anti-aircraft systems.

Language: English
Page range: 109 - 136
Submitted on: May 22, 2018
Accepted on: Sep 26, 2018
Published on: Sep 30, 2018
Published by: Polish Naval Academy
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 Paweł Dobrzyński, Stanisław Lipski, Bogdan Machowski, Rafał Miętkiewicz, Sławomir Tamberg, published by Polish Naval Academy
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