By Raytheon on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Miniature Decoy-Jammer Completes Flight Testing Under Budget
The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company recently completed a four-year development program of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J) under budget.
As portion of the event program, the MALD and MALD-J flew a complete of 30 successful engineering and operational flight tests with a super 30-for-30 record. The MALD-J’s flight test record was 15-for-15 of that total.
“The MALD program continues to surpass expectations in performance and capability,” said Harry Schulte, vp of Raytheon Missile Systems’ Air Warfare Systems. “The MALD-J provides significant improvement in strike survivability and tactical electronic attack, giving our warfighters a decisive edge.”
MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost flight vehicle this is modular, air-launched, autonomous and programmable. It weighs lower than 300 pounds and has more than a few approximately 500 nautical miles. MALD protects aircraft and their crews by duplicating the combat flight profiles and signatures of U.S. and allied aircraft. MALD-J adds radar-jamming capability to the essential MALD platform.
“The commitment and function of the Raytheon and U.S. Air Force team, coupled with the science and engineering development in electronic attack for the MALD vehicle, has paid big dividends for our warfighter. Finishing under budget in these austere times was especially rewarding,” said Chris Daily, Raytheon Missile Systems’ MALD-J program manager.
MALD-J offers a value effective and unique capability within the complex electronic warfare (EW) environment and is now ideally placed because the force multiplier of choice for future U.S. and allied EW operations.
- MALD confuses enemy air defenses by duplicating friendly aircraft flight profiles and radar signatures.
- MALD-J maintains all capabilities of MALD and adds jamming capabilities.
- Raytheon began delivering MALD-J within the fall of 2012.
Raytheon Company, with 2012 sales of $24 billion and 68,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader that specialize in defense, security and civil markets during the world. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
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