Recently, it was reported on social networks that a Ukrainian military pilot placed an iPad directly in front of the cockpit while flying a Su-27 fighter jet. This was exactly when the Ukrainian military had to integrate various Western-assisted air-to-ground weapons in a short period of time. The solutions that came up.
After the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia war, the Ukrainian Air Force only had Russian-made Su-27 and Mig-29 fighters, as well as Su-24 and Su-25 attack aircraft, and its inventory of Russian-made or homemade missiles and bombs to match them was far from insufficient. In response to the Russian army’s all-out attack.
Therefore, NATO countries have provided a large amount of assistance to Western air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons in the past two years, including AIM-120, AIM-9, AGM-88, JDAM-ER and Storm Shadow cruise missiles, etc., and these weapons were designed Mounting on Russian-made fighters has not been considered, so NATO and Ukraine need to find ways to integrate these Western missiles with the Ukrainian army’s old Sukai and MiG fighters in a short period of time.
After solving the problems of the dragon frame, wiring and software, the cockpits of the Ukrainian army’s old Sukai and MiG fighter jets are still mainly analog buttons. Therefore, in order to quickly solve the problem of digitizing the old cockpits, the Ukrainian army directly digitized the cockpits. An iPad or other tablet computer is installed in the front, and then connected to a digitized fire control system to launch Western weapons.
Judging from the cockpit video, the entire iPad covers almost all the original instruments. Therefore, it is speculated that in addition to the fire control system, the Ukrainian army also integrated all important flight data into the software and allowed the iPad to display it together, otherwise the pilot would not be able to It is too dangerous to perform flight missions without obtaining important information such as altitude, speed, level and orientation.
(Source of first picture:https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1782067257813688539)
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