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Nulka is an Australian-designed and -developed active missile decoy built by an American/Australian collaboration. [1] [2] Used aboard warships of the United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy, United States Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy, [3] Nulka is a rocket-propelled, disposable, offboard, active decoy designed to lure anti-ship missiles away from their targets.
Stalker: Ultralight rocket 2 LEO Development 2024 [154] United Launch Alliance: Atlas V: Medium rocket 2 + 0-5 boosters TMI: Operational (98/99) 2002 [155] Delta II 6000 Medium rocket 2-3 + 9 boosters GTO Retired (17/17) 1989 [156] Delta II 7000 Light rocket 2-3 + 3, 4 or 9 boosters GTO Retired (130/132) 1990 [156] Delta II 7000H Medium rocket ...
The AN/SLQ-25 Nixie and its variants are towed torpedo decoys used on US and allied warships. It consists of a towed decoy device (TB-14A) and a shipboard signal generator. The Nixie is capable of defeating wake-homing, acoustic-homing, and wire-guided torpedoes. The decoy emits signals to draw a torpedo away from its intended target.
In 2002, the USAF renewed its interest in an air-launched decoy and started a new industry-wide competition for a variant with greater endurance. [5] The contract for a new MALD was awarded to Raytheon in Spring 2003.
The Soviets had been working on early-warning radar for their anti-ballistic missile systems through the 1960s, but most of these had been line-of-sight systems that were useful for rapid analysis and interception only. None of these systems had the capability to provide early warning of a launch, within seconds or minutes of a launch, which ...
“This was a systemic failure on the part of Verizon,” attorney Amanda Dure of the Washington D.C. firm Pangia Law Group, who is representing M.D. in the case, told The News & Observer.
X-Bow Systems is a space company that produces solid rocket motors and small launch vehicles to be used in orbital and suborbital launch services. [1] [2] History
In both flight tests and actual combat, the ALE-50 has successfully countered numerous live firings of both surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles. U.S. military pilots have nicknamed the decoy "Little Buddy". [3] The system requires no threat-specific software, and communicates its health and status to the aircraft over a standard data bus. [4]