3A ALE-47 Flashcards
what can consist of a burst or a number of salvos in quantities of 1 to 20?
A dispense program
What is depressed to dispense manual program #5?
Chaff/Flare Switch
What is used to manually dispense commands to the CMDS?
Chaff/Flare ECM Consent Switch
What provides electrical interface between the Chaff/Flare Switch, the Chaff/Flare ECM Consent Switch, the Programmer, and the Safety Switch Assembly?
Cockpit Control Unit
What is the processing unit for the CMDS and communicates on both BMUX and EWMUX?
The ALE-47 Programmer
What interfaces the programmer to the CCU and sequencer switch assemblies?
RS-422
What controls the quantity and interval of burst/salvos for all expendables?
The ALE-47 Programmer
What isolates primary power from the firing circuits when the pin is installed during ground operations?
Safety Switch Assembly
What preforms payload inventory, monitor misfires, accomplish jettison and bypass, and dispense expendables?
How many are there?
Sequencer Switch Assemblies, 2
What accepts chaff or flare magazine? How many flares is it capable of holding? How many are there?
Countermeasure Dispenser Assemblies, 15, and 4
How many manual dispensing programs are there?
6
What is the permission-planning equipment used to load the parameters for the manual programs into CMDS volatile memory?
Data Transfer Equipment
What condition interrupts 28 VDC squib power and prohibits the CMDS from dispensing?
Weight on Wheels
Where are program parameters stored?
The Programmers MDF
What contains six manual programs, a bypass program, and a jettison program?
The CMDS
What CMDS Mode overrides all other modes during flight?
Jettison
What identifies if something is jettisonable?
The MDF
What is a safe mode that applies power for BIT and reprogramming?
Standby
What program is selected by positioning the switch inboard?
What switch is it?
Program #6 and Chaff/Flare ECM Consent Switch
Where are the results of power-up self test displayed?
Cockpit Control Unit Status Window
What system self-test can be initiated in any CMDS operational mode except OFF?
Operator BIT
