BELGOROD. April 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Application of Orion radio-technical intelligence stations will help increase firing efficiency of surface-to-air missile systems and aircraft systems by 25 to 30 percent even in adverse radio-electronic conditions, Igor Peretyagin, director general and chief constructor of the Spets-Radio research and production enterprise, said on Tuesday.
The conclusion was drawn by experts of the Defense Ministry's 2nd R&D Institute who had tested the station, Peretyagin told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The station designed by Spets-Radio has been tested successfully in a recent air force exercise that took place on the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region, the official went on.
According to him, Orion is the key element of a passive location system.
"Each station is a direction finder that determines the location of an emission source, identifies and classifies it. Several Orions in bearing cross-points determine the position of the target using a translation method. Data on the target position is fed to a surface-to-air missile system or aircraft for target indication," Peretyagin said.
Specialists of the 2nd institute say that the station has distinguished itself in operation in adverse radio-electronic conditions, guaranteeing detection of targets of various types, including low-flying ones.
Orion "is written into the program of the S-400 surface-to- air missile system development," Peretyagin said.
"Our station is in demand in the Navy, Land Forces and border guard troops. Its application range is very broad. In fact, the station has exceeded the limit of the S-400 Triumf system," the director stressed.
According to data available to Interfax-AVN, the 85V6 Orion mobile automatic radio-technical intelligence station detects, tapes, identifies and classifies surface, naval and airborne objects using emissions of their own means.
Orion can be used for controlling the radio-electronic situation in the vicinity of proving ranges, industrial centers, naval bases and airports.