This is pretty interesting.  Soon they will have the ability to fire back!!

  http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/88994.aspx

Cory

i'd imagine cargo carriers see big business in the middle east, places like iraq and afghanistan for military contracts. These are places that fed-ex and co would benifit from the technology in the short term i'd imagine.

If a laser was effective against missiles.... every current goalkeeper / phalanx equipped boat would have their lead spewer replaced with one.

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They are planning to do this but AFAIK the only plane that has an operational flare system is the one that is used by the government (which is always a 757 as the system is built for a 757)
They removed it directly after the incident happened as the plane was compromised (only long 757 from Israir)... and there are no pictures of the plane involved fom a few months before the incident until a few months after...

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For high risk you hire crazy Russians... with An-12s (which are basically milspec and have a far lower exhaust signature).

And even the best flare systems are useless against fairly recent MANPADs anyway... the ones in Kenya were SA-7s that are as likely to go for the sun as for an engine

Too late for these guys..

http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=OO-DLL&view=true

From what I gathered from the article, the purpose of the pod isn't to destroy the missile, but to overload its seeker head, causing it to lose lock and veer off target.

This may not be as effective against anti-ship missiles as the majority are radar-guided, while a few, like the Penguin are IR guided. Also, it would be completely useless against an ARM missile should the enemy get one.

Would be nice if CBN hired editors that knew English grammar as well.

elite marksman wrote on Jan 20^th, 2007 at 3:04pm:


They'd be totally useless against something like a Penguin as well.  IR guided SAMs guide by spinning.  They don't have an IR camera per-sae, just an IR sensor.  As they spin they "see" the plane when the sensor spins towards it and don't see the plane as the sensor spins away.  They make course corrections to see the plane for longer durations of their spin.  IR jammers use pulsed IR light to make the sensor think it is seeing the plane when it in fact isn't and therefore guide itself away from the plane.

A missile like a Penguin or IR Maveric use an IR camera and image recognition software to see the target.  A pulsed IR light wouldn't confuse such a seeker.

IR jammers currently in use are nothing but big IR flood lamps with a shutter device to make them pulse.  These are limited in that you can only build an IR source of a certain power before you begin melting things.  The quantity of the power relates to the effective heat signature you can protect and this low power limits their use to low IR signature craft like helocopters.  My company once made a giant one to protect a 747 carrying the space shuttle for its appearance in a European air show.  But the thing was enormous, heavy, propane fired, and high drag.  Not quite economical for an airline to operate.

Laser based IR jammers feature a gimbled laser source that can pulse large quantities of IR energy at incoming missiles.  The increased power allows them to be used on larger IR signature aircraft.  

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Am I really the one that has to do it?

*sigh*


*sings off-key*
"Hiiiiighwayyyy tooo.. the danger zone"

Chris_F wrote on Jan 21^st, 2007 at 6:18am:


oh right.  thats who i used to work for.  but we were taken over by finmeccanica a couple of years ago and we now go by the name of Selex SAS.  i believe you guys still own 25% of us, although that may change in the near future.