UK Air
Elevating Aerial Excellence with Advanced Air Capabilities
Exploring the Future of Defence
Northrop Grumman provides advanced air capabilities that ensure air dominance in an evolving threat environment. In the UK, our portfolio includes survivability systems such as LAIRCM and DAIRCM, cutting-edge technologies that protect aircrews from emerging missile threats.
We play a key role in combat air through our contributions to the F-35 programme and support the development of next-generation uncrewed combat air systems. Our Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar delivers unmatched airborne surveillance and command capabilities, while the Joint Threat Emitter enhances training realism for aircrews.
With advanced weaponry and integrated mission solutions, we are delivering decisive advantage to allied air forces around the world.
LAIRCM and DAIRCM
Traditional IR countermeasures are not effective against modern IR missiles and the threat is becoming more advanced and widespread. A Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) system is required to defeat the latest and future advanced IR threats, and has a lower life cycle cost compared to other IR countermeasure approaches.
Our systems, fielded on RAF aircraft, can simultaneously track and defeat threats in harsh environments. Providing fast, accurate threat detection and simultaneous jamming Northrop Grumman systems counter all fielded IR missile threats.
