Dispensing flares or decoys might no longer be enough to protect the military’s large transport and refueling aircraft.
Credit: Staff Sgt. Nicholas A. Priest/U.S. Air Force
Even the military’s slow and lumbering airlifters and tankers have ways to defeat a locked-on incoming missile. A burst from a laser or a pattern of flares can fool an infrared-guided threat. Jammers or chaff can shake off a radar-guided weapon. For every countermeasure, there is a counter...
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