Advances in passive expendable countermeasures
Article Abstract:
Recent advances in passive expendable countermeasures have further boosted their reputation as the least expensive, most cost-effective resistance systems to radar-directed and infrared (IR) heat-seeking threats. These products, which primarily encompass chaff and flares, continue to be the most prevalently-depoyed form of countermeasure on military aircraft, as well as sea vessels and land-based military vehicles. Among the most notable improvements in the field are advanced flares, which pertain to the category of IR decoy flares configured to oppose the point-source-rejection strategies used in second- and third-generation IR heat-seeking missiles; various new techniques against IR-homing in anti-ship missiles; and enhancements in manufacturing techniques or performance of flares.
Publication Name: Journal of Electronic Defense
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0192-429X
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Secrets of 1999 F-117 shootdown revealed
Article Abstract:
Dani Zoltan, retired colonel of surface-to-air-missile battery of Serbia and Montenegro army, reveals the secret behind shooting down the F-117 and an F-16 manned airplane, during Operation Allied Force, using slight technical modification in the strategies of air defense missile systems.
Publication Name: Journal of Electronic Defense
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0192-429X
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
First person singular
Article Abstract:
Vic Pheasant, former chaff and flare specialist of Royal Air Force, recalls his memories about implementing chaff and flair systems, while he is working for RAF.
Publication Name: Journal of Electronic Defense
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0192-429X
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Swedish mine countermeasures. Beginning of frame welding of the first Greek U-214. Autonomous underwater vehicles: the upcoming solution for mine countermeasures
- Abstracts: The Air Force in facts and figures: Structure of the Force. Footholds for the fighting force. The word from the vice chief
- Abstracts: North European navies in the future. Modernization of the Turkish navy. The South African Navy commissions S102 "Charlotte Maxeke"
- Abstracts: Hampton roads extends weeklong salute to USS Mason. In my own words
- Abstracts: Distributed Mission Operations. Moseley's top mission