{"id":2046,"date":"2019-06-09T21:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2019-06-13T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:41:16","slug":"leonardos-britecloud-decoy-flies-toward-service-on-raf-typhoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo\u2019s BriteCloud decoy flies toward service on RAF Typhoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Leonardo will support UK MOD trials with its BriteCloud Expendable Active Decoy in the UK and US. The decoy is expected to go into service on Typhoon later in 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BriteCloud is a drinks-can sized decoy which protects combat aircraft from the latest radar-guided threats. It went into service aboard the RAF\u2019s Tornado GR.4 fleet in 2018<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leonardo is the largest supplier of aircraft protection technology to the UK MOD<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2049\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=2049\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2049\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-May-23-The-Royal-Air-Force-RAF-Typhoon-jet-arriving-at-Akrotiri-in-Cyprus.jpg\" alt=\"The Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon jet \" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-May-23-The-Royal-Air-Force-RAF-Typhoon-jet-arriving-at-Akrotiri-in-Cyprus.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-May-23-The-Royal-Air-Force-RAF-Typhoon-jet-arriving-at-Akrotiri-in-Cyprus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-May-23-The-Royal-Air-Force-RAF-Typhoon-jet-arriving-at-Akrotiri-in-Cyprus-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon jet arriving at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Sir Michael Fallon says the deployment is part of the UK&#8217;s commitment to protectings its Nato allies in Eastern Europe (Photo by PA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Leonardo has been contracted by the UK Ministry of Defence<\/strong>\u00a0to support a series of trials in which the \u2018BriteCloud 55\u2019 Expendable Active Decoy (EAD) is being trialled for operations with the Royal Air Force (RAF)\u2019s fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. BriteCloud was cleared for service last year on the RAF\u2019s fleet of Tornado GR4 aircraft and Leonardo has delivered a quantity of the countermeasures to the RAF for operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first trial with Typhoon took place in April in the UK.<\/strong>\u00a0At this trial, 33 BriteCloud rounds were dispensed from aircraft flown by the RAF\u2019s 41 Test and Evaluation Squadron against a range of representative threats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Made in Luton, UK, BriteCloud is a breakthrough technology which packs digital protection from dangerous radar-guided missiles into a package the size of a drinks can<\/strong>, fitting into the same launcher as a standard 55mm flare. Leonardo is currently the only company in the world which has managed to sufficiently miniaturise Digital RF Memory (DRFM) countermeasure technology to the point where it can be launched from a standard chaff and flare dispenser. In 2018 the RAF became the first Air Force to field this new protective technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to accepting BriteCloud into service on Tornado, the UK MOD conducted extensive testing to validate the performance of the decoy,<\/strong>\u00a0ensuring it could be launched safely from the aircraft and developing operational tactics for its use in battle. It is intended that this work will be used to support the agile delivery of BriteCloud into sevice on Typhoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A range of BriteCloud variants are available.\u00a0<\/strong>As well as the \u2018BriteCloud 55\u2019 variant, named for its compatibility with 55mm flare dispensers such as those on the Typhoon and Gripen E, Leonardo also produces \u2018BriteCloud 218\u2019 (2\u201dx1\u201dx8\u201d) which is compatible with \u2018square\u2019 format countermeasure dispensers such as those seen on F-15 and F-16 aircraft. In addition, Leonardo offers the BriteCloud 55-T, a more powerful version of the BriteCloud 55 which can generate jamming signals strong enough to protect larger aircraft such as the C-27J, C-130 and 400M. Designed and produced in the UK, BriteCloud is readily exportable.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leonardocompany.com\/press-release-detail\/-\/detail\/23-05-2019-leonardo-s-britecloud-decoy-flies-toward-service-on-raf-typhoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonardo &#8211; Aerospace, Defence and Security<\/a> \u2013 09 June 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Osman Tufekci<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASIA<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EUROPE<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIDDLE EAST<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_turk.asp?newst=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Turkey XairForces<\/strong><\/a> Editor)<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/airwar.xairforces.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WORLD AIR WAR HISTORY<\/a> BY <a href=\"http:\/\/xairforces.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XAIRFORCES.NET<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:xairforces@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xairforces@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/OsmanTufekci2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/OsmanTufekci2053<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/Osman_Tufekci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter.com\/Osman_Tufekci<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Linkedin.com\/in\/ali-osman-tufekci-a9989184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linkedin.com\/in\/ali-osman-tufekci-a9989184<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo will support UK MOD trials with its BriteCloud Expendable Active Decoy in the UK and US. The decoy is expected to go into service on Typhoon later in 2019 BriteCloud is a drinks-can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1670,36,19,1671,174,20,1,7,1672,18,1673],"tags":[554,2676,203,2680,2682,2677,186,2679,1999,2681,63,2674,2671,2673,1840,2672,456,470,194,2678,1766,2675],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}