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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Northrop Grumman Incorporates Laser Autoboresight Functionality to Enhance Protection of U.S. Army Rotary Aircraft Against Missile Attacks

Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM)Northrop Grumman Corporation and SELEX Galileo today announced the successful integration of a continuous laser autoboresight module into an advanced jam head to enhance the signal jamming capabilities of the company's U.S. Army Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) self-protection system offering.

The CIRCM jam head is lightweight, small, inexpensive and highly reliable, designed specifically for rotary-wing applications. The laser autoboresight module ensures that laser energy is aligned with the jam head track point to maintain jamming energy on the threat missile.

The continuous autoboresight hardware monitors the laser boresight relative to the jam head track source and makes real-time adjustments to keep the two aligned.

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