USAF eyes Swedish countermeasures dispenser for F-15

The U.S. Air Force plans to evaluate the Swedish BOL chaff dispenser as a potential solution to a shortfall in electronic warfare self- protection for its F-15 fighters. Tracor's ALE-45 dispenser, now carried by the Eagle, has had "a significant problem for a number of years in payload capacity" in...

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