Collins Aerospace, which has over 6,600 ejections in service worldwide, is eyeing opportunities in the region for its latest ACES 5 next generation ejection seats.
Speaking to Daily News, Don Borchelt, Director, ACES II/5 business development, said that out of the 3,000 ACES II ejection seats delivered to export customers, over 1,000 were in operation across F-16 and F-15 fighter jets in service with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand. Borchelt said he was confident of export prospects for the new ACES 5.
The new ejection seat is now on contract on a programme of record with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) under a 10 year indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The first aircraft to be fitted with the ACES 5 will be the F-15, followed by the F-16, F-22, B-1 and A-10. We are in current conversations with the USAF to also now include F-15 EX onto that contract, said Borchelt. It has also been selected for the USAF’s-7A Red Hawk trainer.
Japan is an important customer for Collins Aerospace ejection seats, Borchelt said, adding that the Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) had 120 ACES II seats on its Mitsubishi F-2 fighter jets, in addition to 250 installed on its F-15D, J model fighters. The service uses Collins Aerospace’s older S-III-S seats on its Kawasaki T-4 intermediate trainers.
The ACES 5 is Collins Aerospace’s next-generation ejection seat and features enhanced head, neck, arm and leg flail prevention, in addition to a load-compensating catapult based on the occupant’s weight. The ACES 5 reduces overall ejection-related major injuries to less than 5 percent and ejection-related spinal injuries to less than 1 per cent.
As an entirely new ejection seat, the ACES 5 builds upon many of the very proven and reliable features on the ACES II. It caters for the proliferation of helmet mounted displays and helmet mounted devices and can accommodate that increased mass on the air crew’s head and ensure a safe escape and low injury with that heavier helmet. It can also accommodate a range of aircrew weights, from a very lightweight pilot, weighing approximately 103 pounds all the way up to a large pilot of 245 pounds.
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