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2. Flare (countermeasure) - Wikipedia

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   A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile. Flares are commonly composed of a pyrotechnic composition based on magnesium or another hot-burning metal, with burning temperature equal to or hotter than engine exhaust ...

3. Infrared countermeasure - Wikipedia

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   The most common method of infrared countermeasure is deploying flares, as the heat produced by the flares creates hundreds of targets for the missile. Conventional man-portable air defense systems -launched missiles include an infrared sensor that is sensitive to heat, for example the heat emitted from an aircraft engine. The missile is ...

4. Flare - Wikipedia

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   Illumination flares being used during military training exercises Flares being fired from a ship during a fleet review. A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, fusee, or bengala, [1] [2] bengalo [3] in several European countries, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light or intense heat without an explosion.

5. Footage shows Chinese plane setting off flares in ‘coercive ...

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   Newly-released footage by the Pentagon shows Chinese military planes flying close to US aircraft in what the US military has called “coercive and risky operational behaviour”. One of the ...

6. A Russian fighter jet fired flares at a US drone over Syria ...

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   A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a U.S. drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft and damaging it, the U.S. military said Tuesday, the latest in a ...

7. China's air force is again being called out for 'dangerous ...

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   The Philippines said two Chinese jets flew dangerously close to one of its planes over the South China Sea. It said the Chinese aircraft also released multiple flares in the plane's path.

8. AN/ALQ-144 - Wikipedia

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   If an aircraft needed to loiter over a high risk area or was flying slowly (as helicopters do), it would require a large number of flares to decoy any missile fired at it. The IRCM provided constant protection against infra-red guided missiles. The ALQ-144 and ALQ-147 were first delivered to the US military in 1981. Currently there are over ...

9. Philippines says actions of China air force 'illegal', 'reckless'

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   The Philippine military on Saturday condemned "dangerous and provocative actions" when two Chinese aircraft dropped flares in the path of a Philippine aircraft during a routine patrol around the ...