USAF tests ‘Angry Kitten’ electronic warfare pod on F-16

The US Air Force (USAF) recently tested its “Angry Kitten” electronic countermeasures training pod on an F-16 aircraft at the Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

The test assessed the Georgia Tech Research Institute-developed electronic warfare (EW) countermeasure pod’s compatibility with aircraft systems such as Fire Control Radar.

The machine-learning software-equipped Angry Kitten pod chooses the “optimal jamming technique from available options” during an EW attack and quickly “modifies its approach if necessary.”

One of the system’s developers, research engineer Stan Sutphin said in 2013 that “we’re developing fully adaptive and autonomous capabilities that aren’t currently available in jammers.”