BAE Receives $32 M for Airborne Countermeasures

(Farnborough, UK, July 14, 2008) -- BAE Systems has been awarded a $32 million low rate initial production contract by the U.S. Navy to build hundreds of countermeasures systems to protect the Navy's F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet aircraft from enemy missiles.

The AN/ALE-55 towed decoy is part of the U.S. Navy's Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) radio frequency (RF) countermeasures system. This provides military aircraft with a highly effective electronic warfare defence against RF-guided missiles.

The AN/ALE-55 consists of an onboard electronic frequency converter and the decoy. Radio frequencies are converted to light for transfer through a fibre-optic line to the decoy. IDECM links the aircraft's fibre-optic towed decoy, radar warning system, mission computer, and radio-frequency countermeasures system in a unified defensive suite. BAE Systems will manufacture up to 650 AN/ALE-55 fibre-optic towed decoys and more than 120 electronic frequency converters. The work will be performed in Nashua.

Source : BAE Systems

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