Northrop Grumman expands Viper laser family
Northrop Grumman has introduced a new addition to its family of Viper lasers, known as Viper 2.1, which can interface for use on all directed infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) systems.
Viper 2.1 has a number of new features designed to improve aircraft protection capabilities, including higher power, increased efficiency, reduced parts count, simplified optical path alignment, reduced weight, and improved reliability.
With modular open system architecture for integrated avionics systems, including aircraft survivability equipment, the system can be used in a variety of configurations of DIRCM or integrated aircraft survivability equipment (I-ASE) suites.
Jeffrey Q Palombo, vice president and general manager, land and self protection systems division, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, said: ‘The value of performance of our DIRCM systems stem from our intentional design approach toward a modular open systems architecture. Viper 2.1 can be used in forward-fit or back-fit applications, simultaneously enabling increased survivability, reliability and cost savings.’
Northrop Grumman’s Viper lasers have been fielded and are in full operation on approximately 55 different types of rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft.
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