Textron Systems Corporation

Avco Everett Research Laboratory, Inc.

Daniel W Trainor

Howard A Hyman

In a countermeasure system for an aircraft, a countermeasure module includes a chamber. Countermeasure equipment is housed in the chamber of the countermeasure module. An attachment mechanism allows for releasable attachment of the countermeasure module to an aircraft. A flight mechanism is provided on the countermeasure module for returning the countermeasure module to a location, such that when an aircraft to which the countermeasure module is attached reaches a desired airborne position, the attachment mechanism releases the countermeasure module from the aircraft, and the flight mechanism on the released countermeasure module returns the countermeasure module to the location.

Recoverable pod for self-protection of aircraft and method of protecting an aircraft using a recoverable pod

A laser method of and apparatus for providing a wide variety of laser wavelenghts wherein a pump source of laser radiation is sequentially Strokes-shifted in two separate cells each containing a different molecular or atomic Raman active gas, wherein each cell is optimized to produce primarily first-Stokes radiation as by variation of focal length parameters and/or gas pressure, filter means are provided at the output of the first cell to reject the pump laser radiation and to pass the first-Strokes radiation of the first cell and further filter means are provided at the output of the second cell to reject the first-Stokes radiation of the first cell and pass the first-Stokes radiation of the second cell to provide a desired output laser radiation.

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Reading, MA, United States of America

Daniel W Trainor