Dragonfly would be amazing IMO.
I have to ask for clarification regarding the translation. Are the “flare launcher devices” mounted externally or internally?
If they are external, it would mean the A-37B uses underwing flare dispenser pods for illuminating flares, like the example shown here.
If they are internal, then it would mean a box dispenser is installed inside the fuselage. I was shown a photo of a Colombian Air Force A-37B dispensing a decoy flare, rather than an illuminating flare, from the aft section of the fuselage.
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It doesn’t specify, it only says that since it’s a list of several projects that were carried out and others that weren’t, it doesn’t specify which ones were and which ones weren’t.
https://fach.mil.cl/fach/documentos/biblioteca-del-aviador/rojo.pdf
I’m going to leave the updated link since the other one no longer works.
What could be done would be to analyze the photos of the weaponry, since the OMI-SUU-25 Dispenser you showed seems familiar to me.
Isn’t the one in the center the OMI-SUU-25 Dispenser? It looks quite similar to the one you sent.
I have opened that PDF with a working link to get the full context available to me, thanks! I used Google Translate in a section of the several projects. It did specify they needed to fit the Dragonfly with defensive countermeasures that consisted of flares against heat-seeking missiles, chaff to deceive radar-guided missiles, and RWR to notify the crew of enemy radar acquisition.
So, it led me to believe that the Chilean Air Force had fitted the Dragonfly with an actual box dispenser, as the Colombian Air Force did to its Dragonfly in the photo I shared.
Indeed, it appears so!