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Rafael's AIM-AIR IR Missile Countermeasure
Rafael is developing an IR guided missile countermeasure system called
AIM-AIR. It basically uses sensors to track any IR guided missiles fired at an aircraft and it uses lasers to then burn the guidance head of the IR guided missile. Can missile developers get around this by maybe adding a filter to the warhead or will the solution for now be to fire the missiles in salvos thereby overwhelming the countermeasure? -----JT----- |
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JT wrote:
Rafael is developing an IR guided missile countermeasure system called AIM-AIR. It basically uses sensors to track any IR guided missiles fired at an aircraft and it uses lasers to then burn the guidance head of the IR guided missile. Can missile developers get around this by maybe adding a filter to the warhead or will the solution for now be to fire the missiles in salvos thereby overwhelming the countermeasure? -----JT----- Take a look at http://www.oldcrows.org.au/download/.../langietti.pdf, it discusses the laser plug-in for the US version. Stephen |
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Hobo wrote: In article , (JT) wrote: Rafael is developing an IR guided missile countermeasure system called AIM-AIR. It basically uses sensors to track any IR guided missiles fired at an aircraft and it uses lasers to then burn the guidance head of the IR guided missile. Does it actually burn or does it blind? USAF actually shot down Sidewinders with an airborne laser in the 80's. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/outdoor/od19.htm |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:20:07 +0300, mhd wrote:
Hobo wrote: In article , (JT) wrote: Rafael is developing an IR guided missile countermeasure system called AIM-AIR. It basically uses sensors to track any IR guided missiles fired at an aircraft and it uses lasers to then burn the guidance head of the IR guided missile. Does it actually burn or does it blind? USAF actually shot down Sidewinders with an airborne laser in the 80's. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/outdoor/od19.htm Or maybe even in the early 70's with a laser in the back seat of an EB-57? I still think the unclassified picture I saw was a BIG recon camera in the back seat, but the guy said... And he was from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.. |
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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 |
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Seems like shooting a laser through a canopy would be difficult. The
curvature of the Plexiglas and any imperfections would scatter the beam. -- Jim Atkins Twentynine Palms CA USA "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx |
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"Jim Atkins" wrote in
: Seems like shooting a laser through a canopy would be difficult. The curvature of the Plexiglas and any imperfections would scatter the beam. The housing rotates,and has a flat window,probably quartz or germanium,depending on wavelength. Like a thermal 'night-vision' system on a helo. -- Jim Yanik,NRA member remove null to contact me |
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"Jim Yanik" wrote in message .. . "Jim Atkins" wrote in : Seems like shooting a laser through a canopy would be difficult. The curvature of the Plexiglas and any imperfections would scatter the beam. The housing rotates,and has a flat window,probably quartz or germanium,depending on wavelength. Like a thermal 'night-vision' system on a helo. Such IR laser systems use a silicon mirror, such that the shape is variable. |
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