Russian Fighter Jet Disables US Missle Destroyer Using Electronic Warfare Weapon

The Russian Air Force Khibiny is an advanced aircraftmounted electronic warfare (EW) system capable of jamming stateoftheart air defense radar systems. The Khibiny jamming was tested successfully for some time on the ground in Buryatia, Russian Federation. On April 17, 2014, two Russian Air Force Su24 bombers with no weapons loaded were sent to intercept the US Navy s AEGISequipped destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea. One of them flied around the destroyer up to 12 times while the other one rem