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Airbus Partners With Australia’s DSTO To Improve Aircraft Protection

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

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Airbus Partners With Australia’s DSTO To Improve Aircraft Protection

MILDS forward sensor heads, in the NH90 configuration. Photo: Airbus.

Airbus Defence and Space partnered with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) of the Australian Ministry of Defence to improve the protection of wide-body aircraft and helicopters in a joint development program, the company said on Wednesday.The program had Airbus and DSTO upgrade the Missile Launch Detection Systems (MILDS) AN/AAR-60 Block II Missile Approach Warning system with a Hostile Fire Indication (HFI) capability. HFI is a pure software application within the existing AAR-60 so no additional equipment is required.…

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