Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile ASRAAM is the most capable next generation air-to-air missile dedicated to within visual range combat and provides the pilot with a range of options not available with any other short range missile.
ASRAAM is in service with the RAF, and has already been deployed operationally.
ASRAAM entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornet aircraft in August 2004. The Hornet is the first American-built fighter to be equipped with a European air-to-air missile.
The ASRAAM system concept and design engineering allows for significant growth potential to the missile's capability throughout its life, not only on the Tornado, Typhoon and F/A-18 but also for the future F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
METEOR is the next generation Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air missile (BVRAAM). METEOR offers a quantum leap in performance and will be the standard by which all other Air-to-Air missiles will be judged.
METEOR was ordered by the UK MoD and five other European nations (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden) to meet their future Air-to-Air requirements.
The METEOR contract which involved agreement by all six partner nations, was signed in December 2002. This agreement covers a fixed price contract for the development of METEOR, with production requirements being met on a nation by nation basis.
A full development programme, agreed by all six nations, is already in place and includes the key project milestones that will measure both progress and success. Development will be completed by 2010 followed by the introduction into service on Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen.
Multi-mission Air-to-Air missile system Fully passive or active, MICA is more efficient than any other existing advanced MRAAM. MICA is equipped with the most advanced features of tomorrow’s SRAAM.
Moe than 3,000 MICA missiles have been sold to five countries.
MILDS comprises four to six highly evolved detectors providing high resolution and sensitivity without the need for special cooling.
Each sensor provides a fully processed signal. This signal contains threat declaration and directional information. MILDS can be fully integrated into existing countermeasure systems or integrated with directed IR countermeasures.
It can also be easily installed as a stand-alone system capable of activating a decoy system.
MILDS has been used successfully on a nomber of ground and flight trials against live missiles fired in a dense operational environment.
The system is in production for the NH-90 and Tiger helicopters as well as for other export customers.
Expendable Dispensing System for A400M SAPHIR-400 has been designed to carry out a protective role for the A400M military transport aircraft in an environment of extremely diverse threats, from open conflict to crisis management.
Mirage 2000 decoying and missile warning system The SPIRALE decoying system is totally integrated to the Mirage 2000 ICMS (Integrated CounterMeasure System in cooperation with Thales), with decoy types and sequences related to the threats. Completely internal, it leaves the hard points free and preserves the fighter aircraft's manoeuvrability and mission range. An extra capacity of decoys can be obtained with the internal addition of the ECLAIR-M dispenser. A missile detection function can be added by using the DDM missile detector.
SPIRALE is in service with the French Air Forces on all versions of Mirage 2000 and with five other Air Forces.
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