Commercial transport warning system unveiled.An aircraft missile warning system that relies on infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. "superlattice A superlattice is a material with periodically alternating layers of several substances. Such structures possess periodicity both on the scale of each layer's crystal lattice and on the scale of the alternating layers. " detector technology is being outfitted by EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study Defence Electronics, of Ulm, Germany, for the A400M European transport aircraft. A key component is MIRAS MIRAS Mortgage Interest Relief At Source MIRAS Mobile Interactive Remote Activated Solutions MIRAS Mobile Interactive Remote Activated System , or multi-color infrared alerting sensor, that originally was designed for wide body aircraft, but will also be offered to other platforms including high performance jet interceptors. Other system elements are a defensive aids computer and radar-warning receiver. |
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