On Flight Global
Electronic chaff for the GR4 - & rather more effective than the original...
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Finmeccanica is hopeful that the Royal Air Force will be the launch customer for its BriteCloud active decoy, following the completion of a series of tests of the system onboard the service’s Panavia Tornado GR4 combat aircraft.
Initial evaluation testing was carried out in the USA at dedicated radio-frequency (RF) facilities in October, the first test of the expendable active decoy from the Tornado.
“Now that we've done successful tests on the Tornado we're working hard towards securing our first order for operational deployment,” Jon McCullagh, campaign manager for electronic warfare at Finmeccanica Airborne and Space Systems, tells Flightglobal.
“We're in talks with the UK and are hoping that [it] will be the first nation to carry the BriteCloud into operations.”
A bit of background info.
Any money left in the budget for such additions, I wonder?