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MOD SIGNS AIR RESEARCH

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Thales UK have signed a new research contract for technology that will improve the resilience of future UK aircraft to anti-air threats.

The jointly funded contract, worth £24.5M, builds on years of research work conducted by Thales and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to develop an infra-red warning system to detect missiles, gun fire and other threats so that appropriate countermeasures can be deployed. The programme is being managed and delivered from the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Air Technology Delivery organisation.

The technology demonstrator, scheduled to be completed in 2015, will prove that the system can identify and declare threats in complex environments with a high level of accuracy. It will use up to six single colour infra-red sensors to provide full coverage of the volume around the aircraft and use Thales algorithms on a central processor.

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