The Air Force and Raytheon began operational testing of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer and completed four successful flights in four attempts, announced the company on Sept. 24. More MALD-J flight tests are scheduled for the remainder of the year, states the company’s release. The MALD-J adds radar jamming capability to the basic MALD platform, which Air Combat Command cleared for real-world operations in July. “MALD saves lives by saturating enemy integrated air defense systems, causing them to pursue the wrong target instead of attacking our aircraft,” said Harry Schulte, Raytheon’s vice president of Air Warfare Systems. He continued, “With MALD-J, we are building on this combat-proven decoy to provide the warfighter with even more capability.” Overall, the decoy and jammer variants have “achieved 13 successful flight tests in 13 attempts” so far this year, states the release. (See also Miniature Advances.)
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…