Chemring's Alloy Surfaces and Kilgore Flares awarded $26m countermeasures contracts by US DoD
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An AC-130H Gunship aircraft from the 16th Special Operations Squadron out of Hurlburt Field, Fla., released jettisons flares as an infrared countermeasure during multi-gunship formation egress training.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Julianne Showalter
Deliveries under the contracts are scheduled to begin in June 2013 and will continue into 2015. The M211 decoy order is valued at $6 million, and will be produced at Alloy Surfaces. The M206, MJU-7A/B and MJU-10/B contracts are valued at $20 million, and will be produced at Kilgore Flares.
Above: An M211 decoy device.
Mark Papworth (right), Chief Executive of Chemring, said: “We are very pleased to receive these contracts from the US Army and the US Air Force, which demonstrates their continued 
confidence and trust in our countermeasures. We are very proud to deliver the highest quality infra-red decoys to the US Department of Defense and our international customers.”
The US Army and US Air Force use these decoys to protect all of their helicopters, and transport and fighter aircraft against man-portable air defence systems, commonly known as MANPADS.
