Air Force resumes B-1B testing of BAE's fiber optic towed decoy

The U.S. Air Force completed two B-1B bomber flight tests of BAE Systems' AN/ALE-55 Fiber Optic Towed Device (FOTD), the first since last spring when a problem kept the decoy from fully deploying. "We had some setbacks in March and April, where the decoy only went out a few feet," John Nyilis of BAE...

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