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Lockheed Martin have announced via their company website that recent flight tests undertaken alongside a key aerospace industry team and government agencies have successfully demonstrated the capabilities of open systems architecture in interoperability between next generation and legacy fighter aircraft.


The flight tests were part of a year-long independently funded research and development effort called Project Missouri, which implemented and tested


SkyShield


The Israel Missile Defense (IMDO) in cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority at the Ministry of Transport and the project’s main contractor, Elbit Systems, have successfully completed a series of tests on the SkyShield system - designed to protect passenger aircrafts against shoulder fired artillery. The ‘SkyShield’ system, based on


data links using an open systems architecture. A company press release details that tests between an F-22 and the F-35 Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (CAT-B) demonstrated an ability to transmit and receive Link-16 communications on the F-22, software reuse and reduction of the aircraft system integration timelines and the capability to employ Air Force UCI messaging standards.


Spearheaded by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, Project Missouri was supported by the


advanced laser technology that deflects missiles fired at aircrafts, deviating them from their trajectory, has been chosen by the Israeli Ministry of Transport to protect Israeli airlines planes.


The tests, conducted in a test range in the south of Israel, were the most complex and sophisticated ever held in the State of Israel. The series of tests included a wide variety of threats that the SkyShield


U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) Air Combat Command, F-35 Joint Program Office, F-22 Program Office, Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the USAF 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron along with industry partners L-3 Communications, Harris, Rockwell Collins, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, Curtiss-Wright, Comtech PST, K&L Microwave and Wind River. For more information visit www.lockheedmartin.com


system would have to tackle in order to protect passenger aircrafts.


SkyShield is considered the most advanced system of its kind in the world and is programmed to protect aircrafts automatically. The system boasts the highest reliability and combines advanced detection and deflection technologies that comply with the most stringent civil aviation regulations.


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