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Report: Army’s CIRCM Operational Flight Tests ‘Performing As Intended’

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Thursday, February 7th, 2019

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Report: Army’s CIRCM Operational Flight Tests ‘Performing As Intended’

CIRCM. U.S. Army Photo.

Testing and assessment of the common infrared countermeasures (CIRCM) system show it is “perform[ing] as intended,” according to the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Director, Operational Testing & Evaluation (DOT&E). Laboratory, free flight and operational tests showed the systems’ “pointer/trackers slewed to the missile locations designated by the missile warning system and the lasers provided effective jamming,” the DOT&E report states. CIRCM, developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC], is a defensive system intended for use by rotary, tiltrotor and slow-moving fixed-wing…

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