AMC Test and Evaluation part of team leading effort in KC-135 LAIRCM possibilities [Image 2 of 3]

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES

03.01.2011

Photo by Master Sgt. Scott Sturkol                                                                                               

Air Mobility Command

James Shilling, Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures, or LAIRCM, system manager for Northrop-Grumman in Chicago, Raymond Berhalter, program manager at the KC-135 System Program Office at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and Lt. Col. Randall Sealy, tanker test manager and chief of Headquarters Air Mobility Command’s Aircraft Test Management Branch -- part of AMC’s Test and Evaluation Division, look at a LAIRCM pod attached to a KC-135 Stratotanker parked on the flightline, March 1, at Scott AFB, Ill. In a combined effort between Air Mobility Command, the Air National Guard, the KC-135 Program Office, Northrop-Grumman and other agencies, a KC-135 LAIRCM pod defensive system is becoming a reality. The pod, called the Guardian System by maker Northrop-Grumman, is a laser-based countermeasures system designed to detect, provide warning of, and employ countermeasures against infrared-guided surface-to-air missiles.

• Date Taken: 03.01.2011
• Date Posted: 03.15.2011 11:57
• Photo ID: 377747
• VIRIN: 110301-F-OK556-003
• Resolution: 4256x2832
• Size: 1.11 MB
• Location: SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS, US