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IRIS (jamming device)

family of jamming devices

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ5973517 ↗
Source-derived summary

IRIS is a family of ECM equipment developed by Estonian Defence Forces for purposes of interfering with remotely controlled explosive devices. In June 2009, the technology, manufactured by E-Arsenal, was sold to Latvian Army in unpublished numbers, unpublished configuration, unpublished delivery time at unpublished price.

Family members

There are three members in the IRIS family:

IRIS-T/V is a high-powered vehicle-mounted ECM device;

IRIS-T/MO is a low-power device carriable by patrolling infantry;

IRIS-I/IMP is a device for measuring the jamming intensity at particular locations.

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This entry incorporates text from “IRIS (jamming device)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.