TERMA ACE Pylon Adaptable Capability Enhancement Pylon Instructions
- June 13, 2024
- Terma
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ACE PYLON
Pylon Instructions
ACE Pylon Adaptable Capability Enhancement Pylon
THE ACE PYLON CONCEPT
The ACE Pylon (Adaptable Capability Enhancement Pylon) permits installation of
a self-protection system without giving up weapons stations. The concept is
adaptable to accommodate high performance fighter aircraft, large fixed-wing
aircraft as well as light attack aircraft with varying stores carriage
dimensions and mass capacities.
The ACE Pylon combines the features of a weapons pylon with a modular
countermeasures pod. The ACE Pylon contains a bomb ejector rack, which may be
transferred from an existing weapons pylon, and quick-access stores umbilical
interface facilities, allowing it to carry stores in lieu of a standard pylon.
The interface to the wing is tailored to the aircraft’s existing pylon-to-wing
interface of each specific application.
Integrating Electronic Warfare sensor and effector capabilities into a stores
carrying pylon is a well proven concept, where Terma have delivered thousands
of integrated pylon systems for many different F-16 users.
Significant advantages include
- Performance optimization of the hosted systems offering e.g. spatial antenna separation and effective expendable countermeasure deployment
- Minimal aircraft modification compared with typical fuselage installation concepts
- Retaining full stores carriage capability of the platform compared with podded solutions
The ACE Pylon overall length and self-protection equipment arrangement is also
tailorable to the application, in particular by minimizing installation height
when it is possible to locate the Pylon tail cone in front of the wing flap.
As the ACE Pylons may directly replace the outermost weapons pylons, the
typical configuration will be a symmetrical LH/RH shipset pair for maximum
sensor coverage and symmetrical flare dispensing.
EQUIPMENT ARRANGEMENT
Self-protection suites can be incorporated in stages and with several levels
of complexity, e.g.:
- Chaff/Flare Dispensers (Countermeasures Dispenser System, CMDS)
- Missile Warning System (MWS) combined with CMDS
- Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) combined with MWS and CMDS
- Electronic Countermeasures Jamming system (ECM) combined with MWS
References
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