ESL deliver advanced missile warner test sets to US

Elettronica Systems Ltd (ESL) has delivered advanced missile warner test sets to three American customers The warner sets included the Super MEOS long range system and two variants of the standard MEON short range flight line test set.

Super MEOS and MEON are part of an overall ESL product portfolio of flight-line and long range stimulators for testing electro-optical defensive systems such as jammers, missile and laser warners and Directed IR Countermeasure (DIRCM) systems. The ESL Test Sets have been specifically designed to test these systems in operational mode.

Two Super MEOS equipments have been delivered to CECOM, Fort Monmouth to assist in the development of the ATIRCM/CMWS system. Super MEOS is an upgraded version of the standard MEOS end-to-end Directed Infra-Red Countermeasures (DIRCM) stimulator developed in association with TENIX Systems Australia and first supplied to the UK MOD in support of the UK Nemesis DIRCM programme. Super MEOS has both an upgraded IR transmitter and improved man/machine interface. Having two identical equipments enables multi-threat analysis to be conducted by dual use of the stimulators.

Both MEOS and Super MEOS provide a multi-role EO stimulator for the MWS and fine tracking system of a DIRCM system and a receiver/detector that interrogates the DIRCM jamming beam to confirm that a successful and effective counter has taken place. Both equipments can be tripod or pedestal/director mounted and are designed to be used by a single operator and require minimum logistic support. Applications also include vital doctrine and tactics evaluation, DT&E and OT&E in addition to aircrew training, where MEOS provides a very cost effective and safer alternative to the firing of live missiles.

Four customised Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL) versions of the MEON flight line tester have been supplied to Eglin AFB, PRIMES Test Facility to enable 'hardware in the loop' evaluation to be conducted. Known as MEON (SIL), this variant of the standard MEON is remotely controllable and has a wider field of view transmitters/receiver to enable close-in engagement with the MWS and DIROM system.

An improved version of standard MEON, originally developed as a flight-line confidence test set for the Nemesis DIRCM has also been delivered to BAE Systems, Nashua to support the development of the ATIRCM/CMWS system. In addition, MEON is capable of making accurate measurements of the jamming beam intensity, so offering a go/no go test of the DIRCM countermeasures effectiveness.

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