Rafael's AIM-AIR IR Missile Countermeasure

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:21:21 +0000 (UTC), Jim Yanik wrote:

Any filter would reduce the seeker sensitivity.If the laser is in the same
wavelengths that the seeker uses,it still would be effective,and the filter
would be useless.

And all the laser has to do is blind the seeker long enough for it to lose
lock,and then it can switch to another missile rapidly.

You could have a filter that optionally goes over the seeker. When a
laser is turned on, the missile uses its "sunglasses"; the power of
the laser is such that the missile can use it to seek the aircraft.
When the laser is switched off, the missile takes its sunglasses off
and guides towards the aircraft in the usual way.

This assumes that the filter can go over the seeker quickly enough
that the laser can't damage it, of course.

--
Phil
"If only sarcasm could overturn bureaucracies"
-- NTK, commenting on www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_29.html