Infrared-guided surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and air-to-air missiles (AAMs) continue to pose grave danger to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. Current tactics against these threats include the execution of evasive maneuvers and the dispensing of flare countermeasures. Improved self-protection capabilities that are essential to enhance aircraft survivability include: (1) the deployment of passive missile warning technologies capable of providing the earliest detection of the threat missile plume ignition and (2) ...
A common form of attack during current operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is the use of hit-and-run mortar and/or rocket strikes on coalition forces and bases, or on locations associated with the provisional governments in these countries. The insurgents fire mortars or rockets and then quickly escape before their presence is noticed. Rocket artillery can be exceptionally deadly, since the supersonic speeds of these weapons often result in an impact ...
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