Originally posted by Injecteer
The time for their reaction is around 0.01 second and they are activated automatically when radar sends a warning about incomming high speed object and its trajectory. I was impressed reading about it. It is expected that a single anti-missile will protect aircraft from enemy's missille with 90% probability in combination with a sharp maneuvre and in 60% if aircraft flies same course. Combination of 3 would improve probability further! It can be used by aircrafts and possibly by helicopters which have required radar capacity. Unfortunatelly I have no links for you. Anyway it would take many years before this development of Vympel will be fielded.
I also read about high impulse laser which blinds homing devices of heat-seaking missiles. It was designed to protect civil aircraft against mobile SAMs like Igla, Stinger, Strela etc.... This one was already partially tested, and worked.
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