Classified MQ-9 cloaking pods bring enhanced capability to US Marine Corps MLRs

[F-22Raptor]

A cloaking pod equipped on the Marine Corps' MQ-9 Reaper drones, making them "mostly undetectable" to enemy radar, is enhancing the surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the service's new Marine Littoral Regiments, according to Commandant Gen. Eric Smith. Lowering the MQ-9’s signature improves the MLR’s ability to sense and make sense of its surroundings, Smith said today at a Brookings Institution event, labelling the classified system a “T-SOAR pod” but declining to provide detailed information on its capabilities. “What it...

 

[Oscar]

Rather spun up headline - this isn’t star trek.

But what it is an advanced DFRM pod - possibly from Mercury systems

 

[dbc]

Rather spun up headline - this isn’t star trek.

But what it is an advanced DFRM pod - possibly from Mercury systems

Active cancellation

 

[Oscar]

Active cancellation

 

[F-22Raptor]

Rather spun up headline - this isn’t star trek.

But what it is an advanced DFRM pod - possibly from Mercury systems

The electronic warfare pod “can mimic, I’ll be careful here, it can mimic things that are sent to it that it detects, turn it around and send it back,” Gen. Eric M. Smith, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, told a Brookings Institution forum on Tuesday. “So it becomes a hole. A black hole. It becomes mostly undetectable.”

The Reaper Defense Electronic Support System / Scalable Open Architecture Reconnaissance (RDESS/SOAR) pod gives the MQ-9s “the ability to somewhat disappear off of enemy radar,” Smith added, declining to elaborate for security reasons because it is a classified device. Sensing an enemy’s radar emissions and sending false signals back to the receiver is a core tenant of electronic warfare, one capability of many a system like this is likely to possess.

New Electronic Warfare Pod Turns Marine MQ-9 Reaper Into "A Black Hole"

The new electronic warfare and intelligence collection pod enables MQ-9 Reapers to be "mostly undetectable," according to the Marine Corps Commandant.

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[Broghil]

Nice technology. But wouldn't it increase its electronic emissions?

 

[tman786]

Maybe they should use this cloaking device over Yemen and Syria as their mq9s are being shot down with regular frequency