Selex Unveils BriteCloud Decoy for Gripen
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Unveiled by Selex ES in London on 6 November, the BriteCloud will be released from a standard 55mm flare dispenser, and “decoy radar-guided missiles and fire control radars away from fighter aircraft”, its developer says.
To be used instead of the deployment of a towed decoy or reliance on on-board repeaters, the pre-programmable BriteCloud will use its inbuilt computer to jam ground radars and incoming missiles by generating a false target. Selex, which says it has already proven the technology, claims the technique will result in “large miss distances”, including when used against mobile surface-to-air missile threats.
By partnering on the BriteCloud system, Selex and Saab have strengthened their existing collaboration on the new-generation Gripen E – already selected for the air forces of Sweden and Switzerland. Selex is to provide its ES-05 Raven active electronically scanned array radar for the type – a first test example of which will be flown in 2015. A two-seat demonstrator for the future Gripen has been involved in flight-testing since 2008.
According to Selex, the BriteCloud will later be adapted for use with other flare size formats, and “is expected to be picked up by further platform manufacturers”.
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