Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems will dominate the worldwide airborne infrared countermeasures market by 2007, a new industry analysis states. The continuing proliferation of man-portable, shoulder-fired, infrared-guided surface-to-air missiles has led to a number of new, next-generation directed infrared countermeasures systems, according to a report on the IRCM market by the Teal Group. "Current IRCM systems, such as BAE Systems' AN/ALQ-144, use wide-angle heat lamps to counter missile seekers, but do not radiate enough energy in all directions to counter...
