Aviaconversiya Explained
Aviaconversiya (Russian: ООО Авиаконверсия)[1] is a Russian manufacturer of surface-based electronic countermeasures products, namely satellite navigation systems deceivers. Oleg Antonov is the director of the company.[2]
Aviaconversiya was founded in the early 1990s as a private company,[3] and it introduced its GPS jamming device at the 1997 MAKS Air Show.[4] [5] In 2002 the US Department of Defense had bought $192,000 worth of equipment from the company.[6]
According to Western sources, Aviaconversiya deceivers were activated around Baghdad by the Saddam Hussein government of Iraq in order to disrupt Coalition GPS devices, namely satellite-guided munitions, during the 2003 Iraq War.[7] Russian officials dismissed the allegations, as did Aviaconversiya.[8]
In 2003 Aviaconversiya was described by SIPRI as a small company, whose leadership included ex-Soviet army commanders who grew rich on a government monopoly for processing scrap metal from Soviet military hardware.[9]
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- News: Kislyakov. Andrei. Russian military makes strides in electronic warfare. 20 June 2017. Russia Beyond The Headlines. 20 December 2013.
- News: Electronic Weapons: The Antidote For GPS Jamming. 20 June 2017. www.strategypage.com.
- News: Aviaconversia Is Marketing A Portable GPS/GLONASS Jammer. 20 June 2017. aviationweek.com.
- News: Ключ на "СТАР". Изюминки МАКСа-2007 кроются в деталях, которые сразу в глаза и не бросаются. 20 June 2017. ВПК.name.
- News: Brewin . Bob . U.S. Army awarded contracts to Russian GPS jammer vendor . 20 June 2017 . Computerworld . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160615062746/http://www.computerworld.com/article/2581651/government-it/u-s--army-awarded-contracts-to-russian-gps-jammer-vendor.html . 15 June 2016 .
- News: Putin hits back on arms claims . 20 June 2017 . BBC News . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20070218214747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2884895.stm . 18 February 2007 .
- News: Dougherty. Jill. Russia hits back in shipments row. 20 June 2017. CNN.com. Mar 24, 2003.
- News: Gorbachev, Arms Sales Allegations, Pankin, Berezovsky, Council for Foreign & Domestic Policy, TV1 Review, Chechnya Vote, Business Conference, Vulnerable Nukes, Anthrax, Kotkin/ Khrushchev & Beria- Johnson's Russia List #7115. 20 June 2017. Johnson's Russia List.
