Reducing the susceptibility of low speed low manoeuvrability aircraft to infrared missile kills

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Chia, Hock Teck
Date
1989-12Advisor
Cooper, Alfred William Madison
Ball, R.E.
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Low speed / low maneuverability aircraft are currently quite susceptible to being killed
in attacks by the ubiquitous infrared missiles. A theoretical analysis applied to an encounter
simulation seems to indicate that it is possible to use the infrared jammer to
defeat second generation infrared missiles. The theoretical analysis of a simplified case
of a conical scan reticle with frequency modulation jamming leads to expressions for the
target's position, as seen by the missile seeker, under no-jamming and under infinitely-powerful-
jamming conditions. The intermediate-power case is dealt with by numerical
analysis for a selected, non-optimal situation, as the closed form solution is not immediately
apparent. The analysis indicates successful jamming in the situation studied. In
the scenario where the infrared missile is an almost continuous threat during the aircraft's
flight, infrared jammers and low visual signature paints, and perhaps low infrared
signature paints, are short-term solutions that are potentially useful in increasing the
survivability of these aircraft by reducing their susceptibility to infrared missile kills.
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