Is seeing believing? (countermeasure systems against infrared guided missiles)

Journal of Electronic Defense | April 1, 1998| | Copyright

Make no mistake, infrared (IR)-guided missiles are killers. From 1979 to 1985, aircraft combat losses to all weapon systems are estimated to total in excess of 160. Of these, 90% were attributable to IR missiles.(1) In action over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon in 1982, Israeli aircraft using AIM-9G/L air-to-air, heat-seeking missiles downed 89 Syrian MiG aircraft in one day. Later generation "smart" weapons, those that sense their targets' evasive actions and change direction in flight, are particularly capable. By the spring of 1986, Soviet military action in Afghanistan took a ...

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