Mercury Techniques, Inc. a frontrunner in trusted, safe mission-critical applied sciences for aerospace and protection, introduced that its new mPOD, a quickly reprogrammable digital assault (EA) coaching system designed to coach pilots utilizing lifelike, near-peer jamming capabilities, has efficiently accomplished preliminary flight testing and is on the market for order. Tactical Air Help, a frontrunner in business air companies, tactical aviation coaching, and technical advisory companies for U.S. navy and worldwide companions, oversaw three days of flight testing that ran past visible vary tactical intercept coaching engagements replicating adversary ways. F-5 plane geared up with Mercury’s mPOD EA coaching system efficiently broke, delayed, and denied opposing fighter radar locks, created a number of false targets on the opposing fighter radar, and carried out different digital assault methods. To sharpen their fight expertise, pilots want to coach in mock air-to-air fight with different pilots working as adversaries. Utilizing mPOD, “adversary” pilots can emulate enemy jamming methods precisely, conditioning aircrews to evolving risk eventualities and higher making ready them for actual fight.
“We’re excited to start providing our mPOD coaching system to organizations all over the world,” mentioned Mark Bruington, vp, Mercury Mission Techniques. “mPOD is an modern resolution that may be programmed rapidly and can assist U.S. and allied navy pilots develop ways to keep up a strategic benefit over adversaries. It’s going to additionally improve pilot and plane survivability and scale back coaching prices via built-in risk displays.”
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“Our aircrew want to coach towards lifelike, risk consultant techniques,” mentioned RC Thompson, CEO of Tactical Air. “Our shut working relationship with Mercury has resulted in a state-of-the-art, internally configured EA functionality totally built-in with our open structure sensor suite. The result’s risk realism with no efficiency penalty on our plane. It has been a pleasure to work with such an modern and dynamic firm.”
mPOD is constructed with confirmed know-how for digital warfare coaching, check, and analysis:
Concurrently emulate a number of Nationwide Air and House Intelligence Heart (NASIC)-validated threats with confirmed Filthy Buzzard digital RF reminiscence (DRFM) know-how developed and validated over 35 years in partnership with the U.S. Air Drive and Navy
Shortly reprogram missions and threats for various plane and radar techniques in minutes through an intuitive software program interface
Pace integration with the plane show and management panel utilizing the consumer interface or an built-in cockpit management panel
Connect the mPOD to any plane weapon’s pylon or combine it inside the plane to cut back drag and preserve plane efficiency
Lower general sustainment value via a scalable and modular design with six swappable, excessive MTBF {hardware} elements together with a wideband Meggitt antenna
Tactical Air Help Inc. is a frontrunner in business air companies, tactical aviation coaching, and technical advisory companies for the US Navy and our Worldwide companions. Since its inception in 2005, Tactical Air has constantly utilized modern enterprise practices to offer the federal government and aviation business with unparalleled, but reasonably priced business air assist and tactical consulting. The Tactical Air group brings the business’s best cadre of confirmed leaders and aviators paired with one of many world’s largest fleets of sustainable, secure, and extremely upgraded fighter/assault plane. Our various workers consists of former TOPGUN/Weapons College Instructors and Graduates, Operational Aviators, Check Pilots, Astronauts, Air Battle Managers, and Aviation Upkeep professionals. Headquartered in Lexington Park, Maryland, Tactical Air has its foremost base of operations in Reno/Stead, Nevada.
Mercury Techniques is a know-how firm that delivers business innovation to quickly rework the worldwide aerospace and protection business. From knowledge to choice, silicon to techniques, A&D leaders flip to the merchandise, companies, applied sciences and those who comprise the safe, end-to-end Mercury processing platform—the exponential energy that connects clients to what issues most
