Missile applications typically present unique challenges for electronic systems that must meet limited space, low weight and power requirements while working reliably in very harsh environments.
Curtiss-Wright has decades of experience meeting such needs with dozens of missile programs in a number of applications including
- Development testing – for developing or integrating missiles onto an aircraft
- Training – when pilots are being trained in live fire exercises
- Lot sample – when a number of missiles are fired off periodically to check they are still functioning optimally
Our solutions are proven, high-performance, dependable and economical. We design data acquisition systems, transponders, transmitters, flight termination receivers and telemetry instrumentation kits (TIK) with our customer in mind, adding features not available in other standard industry products. Our modern products include
- Flight safety products developed in close consultation with the RCC range safety community
- Compact single and multimode transmitters with a bandwidth efficiency improvement of two to one compared to many competitors
- RF transponders with the highest efficiency in the industry
- IP‐transceivers for point to point Ethernet links
- Network or PCM based data acquisition units that are flexible, meaning the module selection can meet the needs of all stages of a missile development
- Flight proven re‐radiation systems for stealth applications
- Exportable encryption that encodes streaming telemetry data using AES-256
- Modular and configurable TIKs featuring all the building blocks for a complete system