Boeing and Northrop Grumman Team Up To Protect Airplanes From Missiles
Citat:What is DIRCM?
Northrop's DIRCM system consists of several parts -- all working together to detect and track incoming anti-aircraft missiles, then defeat the threat by jamming and confusing the missile's infrared tracker, causing it to go off course. Northrop produces DIRCM in various formats:
LAIRCM "is required to defeat the latest and future advanced IR threats" to Large military Aircraft.
CIRCM is a more affordable "Common" system "built on open architecture to work with existing hardware" to protect a wide array of helicopters and medium fixed wing aircraft.
Northrop also offers a "pod-based" DIRCM system, dubbed Guardian , which incorporates "a multiband laser pointer/ tracker and an ultraviolet missile warning sensor." This all gets stuffed into a single, canoe-sized unit that can be bolted onto existing aircraft such as commercial airliners.
Who wants missile protection?
Northrop Grumman has enjoyed some measure of success selling its DIRCM systems around the globe, including sales to the Canadian military and several other foreign governments in 2014, for example, and to the governments of Oman and Qatar the year before that. The U.S. military has also been investing billions of dollars in outfitting its aircraft with Northrop Grumman LAIRCM systems.
This month, Northrop landed a new client when, in a recent notification to Congress from the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the government of the United Arab Emirates expressed its interest in buying a set of eight "AN/AAQ-24 (V)N LAIRCM" missile defense systems from Northrop. UAE hopes to install the systems to protect its fleet of seven (current) and one (on order ) Boeing (NYSE:BA) C-17 military transport aircraft.
What it means to investors
Assuming Congress approves the UAE sale (and Congress has never rejected a foreign arms sale notified to it by DSCA), the contractors involved stand to win $225 million in new business. Not all the money will go to Northrop, however. in notifying Congress of the sale, DSCA named Boeing the prime contractor on the contract, relegating Northrop Grumman to the secondary role of "main sub-contractor."
That's not great news for Northrop this time. But future sales may offer better news. Here's why:
At roughly $28 million per LAIRCM unit (including all necessary incorporated equipment, servicing, and spare parts) these military anti-missile systems appear to be selling for several times Northrop's stated $3 million price tag on the civilian-market-targeted Guardian system. That's good news for Northrop, which has been having a hard time (and facing stiff competition from Israel) breaking into the civilian market. The fact that it's having more success finding military buyers, and at higher price tags, is a nice consolation prize.
With any luck, the next time we hear of a big LAIRCM sale, Northrop will be able to keep all the money, and not have to share the wealth with Boeing.
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A UAE kao sto pise kupio LAIRCM za zastitu C-17
Citat:The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the United Arab Emirates for AN/AAQ-24(V)N Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) equipment, and logistics support. The estimated cost is $225 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on February 23, 2016.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) requested a possible sale of eight (8.) AN/AAQ-24 (V)N LAIRCM for the UAE’s C-17 aircraft. Each C-17 aircraft configuration for the LAIRCM system consists of the following major defense equipment (MDE): three (3) Guardian Laser Transmitter Assemblies (GLTA), six (6) Ultra-Violet Missile Warning System (UVMWS) Sensors AN/AAR-54, one (1) LAIRCM System Processor Replacement (LSPR). The sale includes spares bringing the MDE total to thirty-seven (37) GLTA AN/AAQ-24 (V)Ns, nineteen (19) LSPR AN/AAQ-24 (V)Ns, and seventy-four (74) UVMWS Sensors AN/AAR-54. The sale also includes the following non-MDE items: Control Indicator Unit Replacements (CIUR), Smart Card Assemblies (SCA), High Capacity Cards (HCC), User Data Modules (UDM), Repeaters, COMSEC Key Loaders, initial spares, consumables, support equipment, technical data, repair and return support, engineering design, Group A and Group B installation, flight test and certification, U.S. Government manpower and services, and Field Service Representatives (FSR). The total estimated value of MDE is $82.664 million. The total estimated program cost is $225 million.
http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/united-arab-e.....res-laircm
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