
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.…