ITT logs milestone in infrared countermeasures development

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., 11 July 2007. ITT engineers and executives conducted an airborne demonstration of an integrated pointer/tracker, one of the key components for a directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system.

The pointer/tracker, the basis of an integrated IR missile countermeasures system under development at ITT, was flown on a UH-60 at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N.J.

During tests over several days, the pointer/tracker tracked an IR source and directed a laser beam at that source.

The equipment, integrated by ITT's Electronic Systems, Electronic Warfare Systems group in Clifton, N.J., will be integrated with a Missile Warning System to form a comprehensive IR missile countermeasures system.