Aircraft
Selex ES Advances Gripen Systems
The BriteCloud digital radio frequency memory jamming decoy is an option on the Gripen.
The Skyward G IRST system first flew at the end of March, installed in Gripen 39-7, which is acting as the technology demonstrator and systems prototype for the Gripen E. (Photo: Saab)
The Skyward G IRST system first flew at the end of March, installed in Gripen 39-7, which is acting as the technology demonstrator and systems prototype for the Gripen E. (Photo: Saab)

Selex ES announced it recently carried out successful end-to-end trials of its BriteCloud expendable decoy program, launched last November in conjunction with partner Saab, which is pitching BriteCloud as an electronic warfare option for the Gripen fighter. The April 16 announcement comes days after Saab revealed it had begun flight-tests with Selex ES’s Skyward G infrared search and track (IRST) system. The Finmeccanica group company is also supplying the ES-05 Raven AESA radar for the new-generation Gripen E.