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U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Patrick Evenson
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Alexis Areizaga-Irizarry, an avionics technician with the 165th Maintenance Squadron, Georgia Air National Guard, practices loading countermeasures on a C-130J Hercules aircraft while attending the Weapon Task Qualification Manager/Munitions Training Course at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, August 7, 2024. The WTQM course, taught by the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center, based in St. Joseph, Missouri, includes training in the uploading of expendables in the ALE-47 Chaff and Flare Systems. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Patrick Evenson.
The ALE-47 is an integrated, threat-adaptive and reprogrammable system that operates as part of an aircraft's broader survivability architecture.
Sept. 1, 2026