SaabTech has revealed a prototype chaff and flare dispenser intended for use in protecting commercial aircraft from infrared guided missiles. The company is also exploring potential development of ...

The original version, BriteCloud 55, is a cylindrical round that will fit the standard 55mm flare-and-chaff dispensers used by many Western European military aircraft. BriteCloud 218 packages the ...

The plane is also equipped with chaff and flares dispensers: the first type is used to divert radar-guided missiles, while the flares are high-temperature heat sources ejected from the aircraft ...

If the missile is guided by radar, the target aircraft can ... wouldn’t be consumable. Chaff and flares need to be carefully rationed with the help of automated dispensers, but so long as ...

BOL is a chaff and flare dispenser operational on several fighter aircraft worldwide, including Saab's Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Boeing's F/A-18 Hornets. Australia acquired the system in ...

To be clear, the eBay auction for the C-1282 didn’t include the actual chaff dispenser ... was apparently controlled from elsewhere in the aircraft. On the rear of the device we have two ...

the squared 2”x1”x8” format for US-made chaff/flare dispensers; BriteCloud 55T, currently in development for transport aircraft and helicopters. Speaking to FlightGlobal, Smith said that ...

BriteCloud can be ejected from existing flare and chaff dispensers — negating the need ... which will initially utilize the aircraft’s existing 55mm dispensers, but in the future will employ a new ...

Previous variants of BriteCloud were used to protect fighter aircraft Previously ... that are equipped with standard 55-mm flare and chaff dispensers, and the BriteCloud 218, which is intended ...

When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian ... radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive ...

With 36 aircraft currently still in inventory ... been fitted with defensive countermeasures including an AN/ALE-39 chaff dispenser and an AN/ALQ-157 infrared countermeasure.

Chinese fighter jets have repeatedly been accused of engaging in unsafe intercepts of US and allied aircraft by flying too close and recklessly popping off flares and chaff in their flight paths.