Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have each won contracts valued at about $6.5 million to begin developing technologies that would allow for attack of air defences without dedicated suppression of enemy air defences aircraft, such as the McDonnell Douglas F-4G Wild Weasel and the General Dynamics F-16CH outfitted with the Raytheon Harm Targeting System (HTS).
A joint project by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Advanced Tactical Targeting Technology (AT3) project involves design and demonstration of a passive tactical targeting system designed to knock out surface-to-air missiles.
The AT3 would use aircraft, the global positioning system, electronic support measures and other aircraft warning systems to pinpoint surface-to-air missile batteries in real-time.
Source: Flight International