Terma raises the bar within Advanced Countermeasures Dispenser System

Farnborough International Airshow – Terma’s trusted and combat-proven Advanced Countermeasures Dispenser System (ACMDS) is now available in a new re-engineered and upgraded version with advanced operational capabilities and increased reliability while still maintaining the highly competitive price level.

The following highlights the ACMDS key capabilities:

• Form-fit compatible with legacy Terma, and third party, dispenser systems (no Group-A changes)
• Fully in-country organic reprogrammable
• Smart Stores Communication Interface for support of new generation of expendables
• Improved mixed payload capability
• Intelligent inventory management
• Class-leading operational capabilities
• New platform-adaptable, hardware-controlled safety features

The ACMDS is designed to coordinate, integrate, and operate expendable countermeasures payloads on fixed-wing, fighter, transport and large-body aircraft as well as rotary-wing platforms.

The ACMDS suite includes a full suite of ground support equipment as well as an application for field/in-country organic mission data generation and post-flight analysis.

The dispenser suite is controlled via Terma’s AN/ALQ-213 EW Management Unit or Defensive Aids Controller, which provides a reprogramming interface, automatic decision support for the pilot in a threat environment, built-in training capability, and full EW/ASE suite control, as desired.

The new ACMDS digital sequencer switch includes a new Smart Stores Communication Interface (SSCI), which enables in-flight pre-launch programming of smart stores, including multi-shot cartridges, expendable active decoys (EAD), and hard kill expendables.

In addition to the standard dispenser assemblies, the ACMDS components have been integrated in airborne structures as both internal, scab-on, pylon-mounted, and podded solutions.

The ACMDS is now operational on both fighter aircraft and helicopters in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark.

The legacy ACMDS system has been combat proven through operational service for more than 25 years with a demonstrated mean time between failure value of >18,000 hours.