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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: M3ta7h3ad on March 19, 2006, 09:43:52 AM

Title: Guardian Angel?
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on March 19, 2006, 09:43:52 AM

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2308/angel_decoys/

Impressive firework display going on there. :) Notice the shape the smoke forms.

Title: Guardian Angel?
Post by: knighty on March 19, 2006, 11:16:04 AM

cool, what are those, some sort of decoys or somethign ?

Title: Re:Guardian Angel?
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on March 19, 2006, 12:00:47 PM

Flares its a transport plane, no weapons just countermeasure flares and chaff. :)

Title: Re:Guardian Angel?
Post by: Smugs on March 19, 2006, 15:21:12 PM

Im sure ive seen that before somewhere but very cool none the less.

Title: Re:Guardian Angel?
Post by: Serious on March 19, 2006, 15:51:02 PM

Quote from: M3

Flares

Used to try to spoof infra red guided missiles, they tend to use a lot of them as they are relatively cheap compared to the plane. The idea is to swamp the heat signature of the plane with that of the flares and confuse the hell out of any missiles fired at the plane.

The problem is that they are difficult to detect so you can use the countermeasure, at least with radar guided you can detect the radar signal.