Destroyers promising project 23560 “Leader” will be equipped with the latest optical jamming stations “rook”. About this newspaper “Izvestia” citing a senior source in the defense Ministry.
System “rook” is a set of light emitters, can dazzle enemy manpower, as well as optical devices of the enemy. System development involved the combined instrument Corporation (OPK) at the plant “Integral”.
In the Navy of the Russian Federation consider this development as a multifunctional system, destabilization of a potential enemy at the time of direct collision. Running like a strobe light, “rook” can blind the pilots of planes and helicopters, to disable optical-electronic devices of the enemy.
As emitters used blocks of heavy duty lamps that can work in both horizontal and vertical planes. As the destroyers of the “Leader” work due to the nuclear power source, the number of complexes “rook” that can be installed on the ship, not limited.
At the moment the system is “rook” passed all types of tests and is mounted on a number of ships already consisting on arms of the Russian Fleet. Due to the successful work to reduce the size of the system, it can be installed on the small court, as well as on military vehicles and armored vehicles.
