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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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    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. Flares are used for distress signaling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications. Flares may be ground ...

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

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    The Chinese jets also fired numerous flares into the plane's path, the country said. The Philippines condemned the Chinese military's actions, characterizing them as "dangerous and provocative."

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

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    One of the declassified videos shows a People's Liberation Army (PLA) plane releasing eight flares 900 feet away from a US plane in the East China Sea in July this year, the Department of Defence ...

  7. Chaff (countermeasure) - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-four crews were briefed on how to drop the bundles of aluminised-paper strips (treated-paper was used to minimise the weight and to maximise the time that the strips would remain in the air, prolonging the effect), one every minute through the flare chute, using a stopwatch to time them. The results proved spectacular.

  8. AN/AAR-47 Missile Approach Warning System - Wikipedia

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    After processing the nature of the threat, the system gives the pilot an audio and visual warning, and indicates the direction of the incoming threat. It also sends a signal to the aircraft's infrared countermeasures system, which can then for example deploy flares. [4] [5]

  9. Philippine military says Chinese air force jets endangered ...

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    A top Philippine security official told The Associated Press that the Chinese jets flew at a “very close distance” to the Philippine air force turbo-prop plane and “put the lives of our ...