General Description |
PAWS is an infrared Missile Approach Warning System (MAWS)
designed to enhance aircraft survivability by providing advance
warning about threatening missiles. Using infrared imagery and
signal processing, it detects and tracks an incoming missile's hot
plume as it appears within the landscape background surrounding
the aircraft. Evaluating the missile’s trajectory, PAWS discriminates
between threatening and non-threatening missiles. When it detects
a threatening missile, PAWS alerts the aircrew with a warning signal
and automatically activates countermeasures. PAWS provides
detailed threat information to other EW systems as part of an EW
suite, as well as to avionics subsystems. It can also operate as a
stand-alone system.
PAWS is in series production and is deployed on a variety of airborne
platforms by both Israeli and international customers world-wide. |
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Main Features, Include:
• Passive detection in the infrared spectrum
• Very high sensitivity
• Optimal clutter rejection for low and slow platforms
• Sophisticated discrimination algorithm
• Automatic pilot warning
• Automatic activation of Chaff/Flare dispensing system
• Automatic cueing of DIRCM system
• Real time imaging display
• Situation Awareness and Panoramic View
• Comprehensive built-in-test (BIT) |
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