So this wont decoy an IIR missile then?
No
Why do manufactures promote these and britecloud systems as a way to decoy IIR missiles then?
What are you talking about?
How are expendable RF jammers supposed to counter IIR missiles?
Britecloud is just for Radar the render I read was misleading when it said it matches IR and Radar signature of the aircraft.
Ok then so what if any countermeasures exist to decoy IRIS-T, ASRAAM and other IIR missiles?
Volumetric flares, like BOL, that create a giant wall of IR signature between the plane and the missile, so it cant recognize it. But that is if a missile is behind a plane. Other than that, DIRCM or death.
Matching a whole IR signature is impossible using things like flares.
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How effective is BOL the other way, with the aircraft perfectly silhouetted by a cloud of BOL (I.e direct front aspect) Is the seeker still able to handle that?
So massive BOL releases to give the aircraft a chance to escape the seeker FOV.
Ok thanks
That is something i do not know. It might be unable to recognize a plane, but any evansive maneuver will move the plane away from the IR cloud, showing distinctive features like wings or tail. If you dont maneuver, the missile will just fly into the middle of a IR signature, and find you there.
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True. Didnt think about essentially it just flying on IOG ;D
DIRCM doesn’t work against IIR as they would just switch to home on jam, so instead of distracting it you would advertise where you are. An exception would be a DIRCM system with enough power to destroy the seeker of the missile (directed energy weapon). And the IRIS-T specifically would just remove the scanned lines which are blinded from the image processing.
Theoretically, damaging the seeker of the IRIS-T should be much more difficult as the time it looks directly into the DIRCM is around 195,3125 µs (12,5 ms per picture scan, 80 times per second, 64 lines scanned → 1000 ms / 80 pictures / 64 lines = 195,3125 µs per line), so the received energy is limited. I hope I got my calculation right. Additionally the small array of the IRIS-T can be much better cooled because of its small size. A focal-plane-array like the AIM-9X and ASRAAM continously looks into the DIRCM so it’s much easier to damage as all transmitted energy always hits the sensor for the full duration of the pulse.
I wrote something about that in the BOL thread so I will just quote that here.
i think only the IRIS-T has that feature afaik
it is not how he is describing it though
9x also has it.
(timestamped)
Do we know if it is the blk1 or the blk2?
Pretty sure it was filmed in 2000 so I would assume blk 1
Does that demonstrate resistance against DIRCM?
Isn’t that more to demonstrate countermeasure resistance?
That last bit the qf-4 is likely using a DIRCM pod
Oh damn ok, it did seem a bit weird that it was obscured.
It’s classified for public release