BACK ILLUMINATION METHOD FOR COUNTER MEASURING IR GUIDED MISSILES

摘要

An aircraft (12) takes off from an airfield (10) along a flight path (14) until it reaches an alititude of 10,000 feet (16). The plume (20) from an IR guided missile (22) is detected by a detector (24) associated with a ground-based IR countermeasure jamming pod (26). The detector (24) activates a laser pointing control unit (34) to gimbal the head (36) to direct a laser beam (38) toward a missile (22) for jamming.