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Boeing Begins Installation Of Missile Countermeasures System On USAF C-40B
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 02, 2007 Boeing this week began modifying the first of three U.S Air Force C-40B transport aircraft with a laser-based countermeasures system that defeats incoming infrared-seeking missiles. The Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures system, supplied by Northrop Grumman, protects large fixed-wing transports and small rotary-wing aircraft from infrared missile attacks by automatically detecting a missile launch, determining if it is a threat and activating a high-intensity countermeasures system to track and defeat the threat. "Boeing designed the C-40B to transport our combatant commanders into the battlespace armed with the communication tools they need to make and execute timely decisions," said Tom Rice, C-40B program manager. "It's now our privilege to protect their safety with a next-generation asset that neutralizes a very real and emerging threat." The first installation is scheduled for completion in late February 2008, with the second and third modified aircraft slated for delivery in August and December of next year. The C-40B, a derivative of the Next-Generation 737-700 Boeing Business Jet, is designed to be an "office in the sky" for senior military leaders, providing broadband data/video transmit-and-receive capability as well as clear and secure voice and data communication. It enables combatant commanders to conduct business anywhere in the world using onboard Internet and local area network connections, improved telephones, satellites, television monitors and fax machines. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links The latest in Military Technology for the 21st century at SpaceWar.com
Northrop Grumman Announces Opening Of New Advanced Antenna Testing Facility
Linthicum MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Officials of Northrop Grumman officially unveiled a new state-of-the-art antenna testing facility intended to help position the company for anticipated future business opportunities involving large-scale, complex, multifunction military sensor systems. The new $13.7 million antenna test complex consists of a five-story-tall, 16,000-square-foot facility specially equipped to verify the individual and collective accuracy and performance characteristics of literally thousands of T/R (transmit/receive) modules - each the equivalent of a mini-sensor - that are assembled in sections to form a completed phased array. |
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