AN/ALQ-78

Country of Origin: USA

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The AN/ALQ-78 is an electronic countermeasures (ECM) set on the U.S. Navy P-3C aircraft as the electronic support measures (ESM) sensor. The ALQ-78 automatically detects and measures the characteristics and bearings of intercepted radar signals from surface and sub-surface vessels.

The system uses a high-speed rotating antenna and a scanning superheterodyne receiver to pick up signals in frequency ranges of specific interest to the P-3C. Once a radar signal is acquired...

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