The Threat – MANPADS
The global proliferation and availability of highly transportable and extremely lethal shoulder-fired missiles has increased significantly in recent years, with such missiles finding their way into the hands of terrorists. These heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles (MANPADS) pose a serious threat to transport aircraft, tankers, special mission platforms and VIP jets.
The Solution ā J-Music
Elbit Systems J-MUSIC is a market leading Directed Infra-Red Counter Measure (DIRCM) system, optimized to protect jet aircraft from MANPADS. The J-MUSIC system is designed for distributed installation on a variety of aircraft types, in a single or multi-turret configuration. The J-MUSIC system is highly advanced and fully proven. J-MUSIC is part of the MUSIC DIRCM family, which has a proven track record of protecting multiple types of aircraft against heat-seeking ground-to-air IR missiles.
Superior protection
Built on years of proven experience in the military environment, J-MUSIC facilitates effective, reliable and affordable protection under all operational conditions. J-MUSIC integrates advanced fiber laser technology together with a high frame-rate thermal camera and a small, dynamic high-speed sealed-mirror turret to deliver the highest levels of DIRCM defense against a wide range of IR missile threats.
Open architecture
J-MUSIC is light-weight, compact, and easily installed on a broad range of aircraft types, in both single and multi-turret configurations. The open architecture solution can also be integrated with various Missile Warning Systems (MWS) for the most comprehensive level of protection in the civil and military market.
Key Benefits
- Fast, accurate threat detection and jamming
- Handling multiple threat scenarios
- High performance, comprehensive protection
- Effective in all operational conditions
- Upgradable for future threats
- High reliability leading to low life cycle cost
Key Features
- Distributed configuration and flexible installation
- Open architecture for integration with various type of MWS
- Fully automatic and autonomous ā no crew involvement needed during engagement
- Hyper hemispherical dome for maximum coverage
- Dual-band laser, each band independently programmable
- Proven in real-life scenarios
- Open to accept user-defined jamming codes
