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AR 18240

Country of Origin: USA

This U.S.-designed system acquires, classifies, identifies, localizes and tracks the movements of ships, aircraft and submarines, as well as fixing land-based sites. The ARI 18240/2, an export-oriented system, is a variant of EW-1017 electronic support measures (ESM) equipment developed for the Nim rod Mk 2 maritime reconnaissance aircraft.

The system consists of fore and aft facing cavity-backed planar spiral antennas in wing-tip pods for a total of 16 aerial units. Each pod...

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