Raytheon and partners have developed lower-cost carbon fiber airframe for MALD

Raytheon , in partnership with Fokker and Dallara, has managed to reduced the airframe production costs of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) by 25 percent.

By Service Depicted: Air Force (ID:DFSD0108201 / 990702F9448S009) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The savings were achieved by using robots to wind the carbon fiber fuselage rather than by hand.

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