Raytheon demonstrates swappable EW payloads for MALD-J

The U.S. Naval Research Lab and Raytheon have demonstrated successful captive flights of a modular, rapid replacement architecture for electronic warfare (EW) payloads on the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J).

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

The CERBERUS payload is customized for a specific mission and threat. During testing at the Northern Edge exercise in Alaska, four separately developed EW payloads were used in 12 operationally relevant missions.

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