New protective EW system for GAF Typhoon
Leonardo, on behalf of the EuroDASS Consortium, has signed a contract to supply the Praetorian Defensive Aids Sub-System (DASS) for the new Eurofighter Typhoons being supplied under the Quadriga programme. This will see 38 of the latest standard Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft delivered to the Luftwaffe (GAF, German Air Force) to replace their Tranche 1 Typhoons.
The Typhoon’s Praetorian DASS equips the aircraft with advanced protection from threats including Infra-Red (IR or heat-seeking) and radar-guided missiles. The system has been battle-tested on peace-keeping operations in Libya and Syria. It integrates sensors and electronic warfare jamming to provide situational awareness, platform protection and advanced electronic deception.
Praetorian is an open and programmable EW system. This means that Germany is in complete control of its mission data and can boost the survivability of its Typhoons by fine-tuning the system to the actual situation on the battlefield on a mission-by-mission basis. Mission data can be fed into the Praetorian system in an extremely short time, quite often just hours. By comparison, some other aircraft are equipped with defensive aids systems that include a generic mission data set and that feedback loop can take several months.
Earlier, Scramble Magazine reported on the contract for new Tranche 4 EF2000s on 10 November 2020 and Airbus' offer for Tranche 5 EF2000s on 16 December 2020.
Photo by Jose Damian Gonzalez (Scramble Archive)