Miniature Air Launched Decoy
Abstract
This project develops the Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) and MALD Jammer (MALD-J). The decoy and jammer configurations are key enablers supporting the Air Force Global Strike, Global Response, Space and C4ISR, and the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Concepts of Operations. MALD is a low cost, powered, expendable decoy designed to represent the kinematics and radar signature characteristics of various combat aircraft. The MALD will be employed from various aircraft platforms to stimulate, saturate, and deceive an enemy Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) thus increasing the survivability of coalition strike aircraft. MALD-J will provide stand-in jamming capability for the Airborne Electronic Attack Systems of Systems. MALD-J will be launched against a preplanned target and will jam specific radars in a stand-in role to degrade or deny the IADS detection of friendly aircraft or munitions. MALD-J will be able to operate in both decoy and jammer modes. Planned efforts for this program are risk reduction (to include prototyping) and Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) of the jammer configuration and any other direct variant. This will include design, development, test, aircraft integration, and seamless verification.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 658462_0604270F_5_3600_PB_2011
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