Aircraft Store Integration

Introduction

Defence aircraft are often fitted with aircraft stores. A store is defined as ‘any device intended for internal or external carriage and mounted on aircraft suspension and release equipment, whether or not the item is intended to be separated in flight from the aircraft’ and includes items such as sonobuoys, external fuel tanks and countermeasures. Design standards are used for establishing the extent of compatibility between an aircraft, specific stores and suspension equipment and hence for justifying the airworthiness of stores for use on aircraft. Aircraft-store integration points of contact can be provided by DASA upon request by contacting DASA DTS Enquiries.