F-16 fighters for Ukraine equipped with early warning system for missile attacks - media

The F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine received were equipped with Terma PIDS+ pylons with a missile attack early warning system.

This is reported by Militarnyi.

The systems installed on the planes were identified from a video that was released on the official channel of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Fighters of all participating countries of the European Air Forces were equipped with such a system developed and produced by the Danish company Terma.

Thus, in 2018, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium ordered Terma PIDS+ pylons with the Hensoldt AAR-60(V)2 missile attack warning system (MWS) for their F-16s, and all these countries announced the transfer of fighters to Ukraine.

How the warning system works:

The system enables the aircraft to detect missiles in advance and counter them. The MWS consists of six sensors and one computer. Three sensors are installed on each of the two pylons, their location provides almost complete spherical coverage around the aircraft.

At the same time, the computer is installed in the right pylon. The system transmits threat information to the Terma ALQ-213 located in the cockpit.

The ALQ-213 selects the most effective firing sequence of thermal traps from the Flare-Up module, which is located in the PIDS+ pylon. And the firing of the traps takes place at such an angle that they shoot diagonally and cannot hit the missile, which is mounted on the end of the fighter's wing.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on August 4, The Economist reported that the first ten F-16 fighter jets had arrived in Ukraine on July 31.

On July 10, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Netherlands and Denmark had begun transferring F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

On July 31, the Bloomberg agency reported that the first batch of F-16 fighter jets had arrived in Ukraine.