Pre-emptive infrared countermeasures

The aim of this PhD is to investigate pre-emptive flare release compared to reactive flare release and their efficacy as a countermeasure device in the protection of fast jet and transport aircraft against the MANPAD threat. Implicit in this is to study the optimum release time of the flare decoy. C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackman, J.
Other Authors: Richardson, M A
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/6935