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BAE’s RAVEN Soft-Kill Countermeasure System Successfully Integrated With Army MAPS

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 14th, 2019

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BAE’s RAVEN Soft-Kill Countermeasure System Successfully Integrated With Army MAPS

BAE Systems RAVEN soft-kill countermeasures system to protect ground vehicles from guided missile attacks. Photo: BAE

A recent Army demonstration using a Bradley fighting vehicle as the host platform proved the RAVEN laser-based countermeasure system developed by BAE Systems can successfully be integrated with a controller framework the service is developing without being degraded, a company official said on Monday. The RAVEN directed infrared countermeasure, a lightweight, modular, scalable, gimballed system that would sit atop Army combat vehicles potentially as part of a layered protection system, is meant to protect against anti-tank guided munitions (ATGMs) at…

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