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Raytheon to help IAF Jaguars acquire high-end precision teeth

Issue No. 7-8 | April 01-30, 2012By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia

At Defexpo, Raytheon also revealed that it has started procuring components required to build munition control units (MCUs) for 126 of the IAF’s Jaguar Darin II strike aircraft. Once installed on the Jaguar, the MCUs would enable integration of modern weapons on legacy aircraft with minimal to no modifications to aircraft wiring and the flight or store management software. Compact in size, the MCU can easily be located in a weapon’s pylon or avionics bay of a legacy aircraft from where it can interface ‘smart weapons’ and the existing software of a legacy aircraft. For example ‘MCU’ will give the ‘Jaguar’ the capability to employ ‘smart’ or ‘advanced’ weapons like the JSW (joint standoff weapon), Maverick missile, Paveway precision guided munition and AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.