Post by estebanf28 on Sept 13, 2019 4:37:13 GMT
Good morning! Today I come to ask what was the best electronic warplane in the southern cone.
the VR-21 of the Argentine air force, now turned into aluminum.
The VR-21 is actually a Boeing 707-387C (19962/755) built and operated for Aerolineas Argentinas and which received the LV-JGP license plate that in January 1982 was incorporated into the Transportation Group I of the I Air Brigade with seat in El Palomar, being the third copy incorporated by the FAA and receiving the code TC-93 accordingly. During the Malvinas conflict there are no records on whether this particular specimen carried out any distant exploration operation together with TC-91 and TC-92. The experience of the conflict showed that the FAA did not have any means of electronic surveillance and after it was over, a program began to provide the FAA with an aircraft with such capabilities. This is how the FAS-240 project emerged, which took place between 1985 and 1986, when TC-93 left its transport operations and became the first ELINT platform of the FAA. The now called VR-21, received a series of Elint and Sigint equipment, more specifically the Israeli Elta EL / L-8300 system, a system that allows the reception and collection of electromagnetic signals, with multichannel capacity that automatically collects all the emissions that the plane finds in its route. The detected emissions are analyzed in their electronic composition, such as band type, wavelength or frequency and stored in a file. Obtaining these data allows to make a true electronic map of a certain area and at the same time know the electronic composition of all the emitters detected, be they air surveillance radars, shooting direction radars or communications center.
By 1997, the VR-21 returned to Israel where it was subjected to an overhaull and where it received new ELINT equipment, plus some improvements in its original equipment, although it is not known exactly what equipment it received and what improvements it suffered in particular, estimating that it It increased its reception capacity and improved the ability to analyze and treat the received signals. Apart from its gray aerial superiority scheme, the VR-21 was easy to distinguish by its almost two dozen ventral antennas of black color and a large radome of the same color located at the bottom of the bow.
The ELINT / SIGINT capacity of the plane allowed the FAA to know the electronic situation of all the borders, the position of the main means of surveillance and control radars, both civil and military. About the VR-21 missions nothing is known and it is one of the best kept stories of the FAA. As one forista once commented, the fate of the operations was only known when the aircraft preparation requirement was issued, especially on the type of survival equipment to be installed. Based on that data, it can be affirmed that the VR-21 flew intensely over each and every one of our borders.
The operations "Fire Focus" and "Grifo" In February 1988, the British Ministry of Defense reported that between March 16 and 31, the so-called Fire Focus maneuvers would be carried out in the area of the Falkland Islands. They consisted of an exercise to reinforce the area defense of the islands, the transport of troops to them and exercises of the units involved. Participants of the Royal Air Force aircraft, Royal Navy ships and approximately 1,000 soldiers who were transported to the Falklands from the British Isles. Before the maneuvers began, the Argentine government convened an extraordinary meeting of the OAS Permanent Council, where a favorable resolution was obtained, but Britain decided to carry out the maneuvers anyway.
Argentina quickly reacted through the Grifo exercise, carried out between March 5 and 27, 1988, where virtually the entire fleet available from the ARA, COAN and the FAA was mobilized. Here the activity of the VR-21 was more than intense, and together with the L-188 WAVE of the COAN, they dedicated themselves to collecting the greatest amount of electronic information from each and every one of the media deployed by the English during the maneuvers. It can be said that it was a moment of high diplomatic and military tension between the two countries and later it was known that the English were very upset mainly by the "stealthy" activities of the VR-21 and the intelligence missions of the P-boat 85 ARA Intrepid on the Island of the States.
The present and the future. The operations of the VR-21 continued although with less intensity, as already mentioned the plane had an overhaull and an update of its systems in 1997 and since then with more or less activity it remained in service performing its task. With the arrival of the A-4AR system, many of the pilots received instruction from the VR-21 staff as well as the “data banks” of the work done by the plane, were very useful for the electronic warfare system of the A -4AR, which should be updated regularly, but with the departure into service of the VR, there have been no new updates. It is estimated that at some point in 2003, the VR entered for major inspection, there all the equipment was dismantled and even the dumbbell, ventral antennas and motors. The truth is that the inspection was suspended due to budgetary problems and the plane is literally abandoned on the platform of El Palomar. By mid-2006, the budget required to return it to the activity amounted to the sum of $ 5,182,366, an amount impossible to obtain because the priorities of the force focused on the C-130 Hercules.
finally the VR-21 is scrapped in 2018.
the VR-21 of the Argentine air force, now turned into aluminum.
The VR-21 is actually a Boeing 707-387C (19962/755) built and operated for Aerolineas Argentinas and which received the LV-JGP license plate that in January 1982 was incorporated into the Transportation Group I of the I Air Brigade with seat in El Palomar, being the third copy incorporated by the FAA and receiving the code TC-93 accordingly. During the Malvinas conflict there are no records on whether this particular specimen carried out any distant exploration operation together with TC-91 and TC-92. The experience of the conflict showed that the FAA did not have any means of electronic surveillance and after it was over, a program began to provide the FAA with an aircraft with such capabilities. This is how the FAS-240 project emerged, which took place between 1985 and 1986, when TC-93 left its transport operations and became the first ELINT platform of the FAA. The now called VR-21, received a series of Elint and Sigint equipment, more specifically the Israeli Elta EL / L-8300 system, a system that allows the reception and collection of electromagnetic signals, with multichannel capacity that automatically collects all the emissions that the plane finds in its route. The detected emissions are analyzed in their electronic composition, such as band type, wavelength or frequency and stored in a file. Obtaining these data allows to make a true electronic map of a certain area and at the same time know the electronic composition of all the emitters detected, be they air surveillance radars, shooting direction radars or communications center.
By 1997, the VR-21 returned to Israel where it was subjected to an overhaull and where it received new ELINT equipment, plus some improvements in its original equipment, although it is not known exactly what equipment it received and what improvements it suffered in particular, estimating that it It increased its reception capacity and improved the ability to analyze and treat the received signals. Apart from its gray aerial superiority scheme, the VR-21 was easy to distinguish by its almost two dozen ventral antennas of black color and a large radome of the same color located at the bottom of the bow.
The ELINT / SIGINT capacity of the plane allowed the FAA to know the electronic situation of all the borders, the position of the main means of surveillance and control radars, both civil and military. About the VR-21 missions nothing is known and it is one of the best kept stories of the FAA. As one forista once commented, the fate of the operations was only known when the aircraft preparation requirement was issued, especially on the type of survival equipment to be installed. Based on that data, it can be affirmed that the VR-21 flew intensely over each and every one of our borders.
The operations "Fire Focus" and "Grifo" In February 1988, the British Ministry of Defense reported that between March 16 and 31, the so-called Fire Focus maneuvers would be carried out in the area of the Falkland Islands. They consisted of an exercise to reinforce the area defense of the islands, the transport of troops to them and exercises of the units involved. Participants of the Royal Air Force aircraft, Royal Navy ships and approximately 1,000 soldiers who were transported to the Falklands from the British Isles. Before the maneuvers began, the Argentine government convened an extraordinary meeting of the OAS Permanent Council, where a favorable resolution was obtained, but Britain decided to carry out the maneuvers anyway.
Argentina quickly reacted through the Grifo exercise, carried out between March 5 and 27, 1988, where virtually the entire fleet available from the ARA, COAN and the FAA was mobilized. Here the activity of the VR-21 was more than intense, and together with the L-188 WAVE of the COAN, they dedicated themselves to collecting the greatest amount of electronic information from each and every one of the media deployed by the English during the maneuvers. It can be said that it was a moment of high diplomatic and military tension between the two countries and later it was known that the English were very upset mainly by the "stealthy" activities of the VR-21 and the intelligence missions of the P-boat 85 ARA Intrepid on the Island of the States.
The present and the future. The operations of the VR-21 continued although with less intensity, as already mentioned the plane had an overhaull and an update of its systems in 1997 and since then with more or less activity it remained in service performing its task. With the arrival of the A-4AR system, many of the pilots received instruction from the VR-21 staff as well as the “data banks” of the work done by the plane, were very useful for the electronic warfare system of the A -4AR, which should be updated regularly, but with the departure into service of the VR, there have been no new updates. It is estimated that at some point in 2003, the VR entered for major inspection, there all the equipment was dismantled and even the dumbbell, ventral antennas and motors. The truth is that the inspection was suspended due to budgetary problems and the plane is literally abandoned on the platform of El Palomar. By mid-2006, the budget required to return it to the activity amounted to the sum of $ 5,182,366, an amount impossible to obtain because the priorities of the force focused on the C-130 Hercules.
finally the VR-21 is scrapped in 2018.
