Atel Tecnologies and Defence Industry
Atel is an Ankara based technology and defense industry company, focused on electronic warfare and communication systems. Atel conducts business worldwide and ranks 18th among the top 25 Turkish defense companies as declared by Undersecretariat of Defense Industry of Turkey, based on their defense sales turnovers in 2010.
We offer research and development, electronic manufacturing and testing, marketing, sales and after-sales services at local and international levels. We have a high reputation among our clients in private, public and military markets and we have been granted with “NATO Secret” level security clearance certificate.
Being as a technology company, Atel is performing several R&D activities in electronic warfare systems and designing, developing and manufacturing military quality radio frequency jammer systems. With our high level of know-how about radio frequency, we provide latest technology supply for our worldwide customers and Turkish Armed Forces.
Atel Jammer Systems
An RC-IED is a bomb, prepared in an improvised manner containing destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy or incapacitate personnel or vehicles. In some cases, RC-IEDs are used to distract, disrupt, or delay an opposing force, facilitating another type of attack. RC-IEDs may incorporate military or commercially sourced explosives, and often combine both types, or they may otherwise be made with homemade explosives.
RC-IEDs are used in terrorist actions or in unconventional warfare by guerrillas or commando forces. In the second Iraq War, they were used extensively against US-led Coalition forces and by the end of 2007 they had become responsible for approximately 63% of Coalition deaths in Iraq. They are also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and have caused over 66% of the Coalition casualties in the 2001–present Afghanistan War.
An RC-IED has five components: a remote controlled switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery). An RC-IED designed for use against armored targets such as personnel carriers or tanks will be designed for armor penetration, by using either a shaped charge or an explosively formed penetrator. RC-IEDs are extremely diverse in design, and may contain many types of initiators, detonators, penetrators, and explosive loads.
Antipersonnel RC-IEDs typically also contain fragmentation-generating objects such as nails, ball bearings or even small rocks to cause wounds at greater distances than blast-pressure alone could. IEDs are triggered by various methods, including remote control, infra-red or magnetic triggers, pressure-sensitive bars or trip wires. In some cases, multiple IEDs are wired together in a chain, to attack a convoy of vehicles spread out along a roadway.
Because of its being easy to obtain all the components required to devise an RC-IED, we anticipate that RC-IED will continue to pose a threat to the security forces and VIPs for years to come.
What is a radio frequency (RF) jammer?
An RF Jammer is a device which broadcasts signals on one or various number of radio frequencies. The RF jamming renders the other radio transmissions on the same frequencies unusable. The typical RF jammer is designed to prevent radio-based communication devices from successfully operating.
RF Jammers interrupt communications by broadcasting radio frequencies on the particular frequencies used by the targeted devices. Therefore, RF jamming is critical about preventing the detonation of RC-IEDs and obstructing the communication channels of terrorist or enemy/unfriendly forces.
At first, RF jammers were primarily deployed in facilities such as roadblocks, checkpoints, military installations, prisons and government buildings. Experiences of increasing number of causalities from RC-IEDs in the last 10 years led to a rethinking of different protection concepts by security forces. Tactical researches indicated that the jammers should be mobile for convoy and team protection, with increased effective protection area, with broader frequency coverage. Today RC-IEDs poses a major threat to the military troops in the field. They evolve fast and set new demands for countermeasures requiring higher suppression performance and more intelligent jamming, with smaller size, lower weight and less power.
Protection of a team from RC-IEDs, may include more than one backpack RF Jammer for each team: One for the leading member, one for the middle of the team and one for the end of the team. This also should be calculated and designed according to the threat analysis and the size of the team.
The concept is almost the same for a military vehicle convoy, or a VIP convoy: The size of the convoy should determine the number and output power (effective coverage area) of the RF jammer. The threat analysis results and protection understanding may indicate that there should be more than one RF jammers for each convoy with a less output power.
Frequently Asked Question: What is the efficient area of this jammer?
RF jamming in a convoy or in a permanent location involves various geometrical and environmental factors that dramatically affect, lessen or greatens the coverage area/efficiency of the jammer.
It may be misleading or deceptive to pronounce a strict, predetermined coverage-protection radius of a jammer system on its own, since all of the topological or environmental conditions would not be same at a given second time and place. It is also practically not possible to measure or calculate all of these variables.
It is important to understand that the jammer’s effectiveness will vary upon many factors, and the operators or users of the jammer should be trained well enough to analyze the conditions that may affect the coverage area in order to configure, place and adjust the jammer for the optimum efficiency.
