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Air Force Finds Replacement Canisters for ECM Pod for F-16s in Korea

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Air Force Finds Replacement Canisters for ECM Pod for F-16s in Korea
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Steven Rucker, an electronic warfare technician with the 169th Maintenance Squadron’s Electronic Warfare shop at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., loads an ALQ-184 electronic countermeasure (ECM) pod on a lift to be moved to the testing equipment area for a 120-day Preventative Maintenance Inspection (PMI) on January 6, 2012. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While it took a decade, the U.S. Air Force found canisters to replace those on a damaged Raytheon [RTX] ALQ-184 electronic countermeasures pod (ECM) used by the F-16s of the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan Air Base, Korea for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio said that the pod had incurred exterior damage from a drop at some point in its life and that the pod’s A3 and…

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