Air Force: Nature of tests yielded poor results for CV-22 radio frequency

By Leigh Giangreco / March 24, 2016 at 5:57 PM
The Air Force is disputing a report from the Pentagon's top weapons tester stating a radio suite on the CV-22 helicopter was not acceptable and argues the way tests were conducted on the radio suite yielded sub-optimal results. Air Force Special Operations Command flies the CV-22, the Air Force variant of the tilt-rotor V-22. The helicopter's electronic defensive suite includes the Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures (SIRFC) system and Directional Infrared Countermeasures System with the AAR-54 Missile Warning Sensor...

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