Search This Blog

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Nulka missile decoys to guard US carriers


Confidence in the capabilities produced by Australia's most successful collaborative defence program, the Nulka ship-launched active missile decoy, has been reinforced by plans to deploy it on US Navy (USN) nuclear aircraft carriers.

Although this decision has yet to be announced either in Australia or the US, details are included in USN 2010 budget papers.

Nulka brings together hovering rocket, autonomous systems and electronics technologies to lure enemy anti-ship missiles with active radar seekers away from their targets.

Read more

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.