Army ready to move laser-based aircraft missile countermeasures to full-scale development

摘要

Redstone arsenal, Ala-U.S. Army aviation experts are announcing plans to move to full-scale development a laser-based missile-counter-measures system intended to defend helicopters, tiltrotor aircraft, and slow-moving fixed-wing aircraft from shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles. Officials of the Army Contracting Command-Redstone at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., plan to award a two-year contract for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the laser-based Common Infrared Coun-termeasure (CIRCM) system.