Saab and Selex ES have conducted the first flight tests of the BriteCloud expendable active decoy (EAD) deployed from a JAS-39 Gripen aircraft. BriteCloud, first announced by Selex ES in October 2013, is an RF decoy featuring a small receiver and a digital RF memory (DRFM)-based jammer. Ejected either manually or automatically from an aircraft's chaff/flare dispenser, the EAD detects signals from a fire control radar or an incoming radar-guided missile, identifies the threat signals and then transmits a decoy signals that makes the threat track to the decoy instead of the aircraft.
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