Posted on Jul 22, 2023
US Air Force to deploy Angry Kitten in Reaper drone
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The US Air Force is turning to an unlikely place to beef up its electronic warfare countermeasures: a decade-old aircraft-mounted pod known as the "Angry Kitten."
While not a new device for the USAF, the latest tests involved the first flight of the Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pod on an unmanned craft, in this case a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper drone.
Angry Kitten, developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), is more aptly described as a full-fledged cat at this point, with work on the pod going way back to 2013. As originally developed, the Angry Kitten is designed to be "fully adaptive and autonomous [with] capabilities that aren't currently available in [radar] jammers," GTRI research engineer Stan Sutphin mentioned a decade ago.
While not a new device for the USAF, the latest tests involved the first flight of the Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pod on an unmanned craft, in this case a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper drone.
Angry Kitten, developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), is more aptly described as a full-fledged cat at this point, with work on the pod going way back to 2013. As originally developed, the Angry Kitten is designed to be "fully adaptive and autonomous [with] capabilities that aren't currently available in [radar] jammers," GTRI research engineer Stan Sutphin mentioned a decade ago.
US Air Force to deploy Angry Kitten in Reaper drone
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"In a press release published recently, the U.S. Air Force disclosed that the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed in April the first round of ground and flight testing of the ALQ-167 Angry Kitten Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) pod installed on the MQ-9A Reaper at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada."
"In a press release published recently, the U.S. Air Force disclosed that the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed in April the first round of ground and flight testing of the ALQ-167 Angry Kitten Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) pod installed on the MQ-9A Reaper at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada."
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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