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2011-04-08 China-Japan-Koreas
Nork Infrared Missiles Threaten S.Korean Fighters
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Posted by Steve White 2011-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 ION KORYE, WAFF >KOREA: UNEXPECTED RE-UNIFICATION BY WAY OF VOLCANIC ERUPTION.

Volcano Diplomacy???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-08 00:54||   2011-04-08 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Also from WAFF > CELESTIAL DRAGON HAS [premptively]SUCCESSFULLY DEFEATED THE US F-22, WHIHC IS WHY THE F-22 IS BEING MOVED TO GUAM [from Okinawa]?
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-08 00:56||   2011-04-08 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Overblown threat. F-15s fly too high for manpads and MiG-21s w/ IR missiles aren't too menacing, even if the North could get some off the ground. Helicopters are much more vulnerable, but again these are very short ranged missiles.
Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-08 01:29||   2011-04-08 01:29|| Front Page Top

#4 So this could be mitigated by just changing the IR signature of the flares?
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-04-08 10:06||   2011-04-08 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Hasn't this been news since like the 1980s?
Posted by DarthVader 2011-04-08 11:48||   2011-04-08 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 SA-18 uses 2 color detectors (1-2 and 3-5μm), so flares not only need to be very bright but also match the relative spectral power of a target (jet exhaust) at those wavelengths. Basically, it's about finding 2 or more flare colors (in infrared) that can be combined to mimic the jet exhaust spectra.
Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-08 14:03||   2011-04-08 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 SA-18 uses 2 color detectors

Doncha just love Rantburg U!
Posted by SteveS 2011-04-08 23:45||   2011-04-08 23:45|| Front Page Top

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