Missile countermeasures

thumb|upright=1.35|Illumination flares being used during military training exercises thumb|upright=1.35|Flares being fired from a ship during a fleet review

aerial countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles

Shtora-1 (, "curtain") is an electro-optical active protection system or suite for tanks, designed to disrupt the laser designator and laser rangefinders of incoming anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs). The system is mounted on the Russian T-80 and T-90 series tanks and the Ukrainian T-84. The existence of Shtora was revealed in 1980 by spy Adolf Tolkachev.

short-range mortar that launches chaff or infrared decoys from naval vessels

aircraft equipment to detect an approaching anti-aircraft missile

right|thumb|An ALQ-144 jammer mounted on an OV-10 Bronco. The AN/ALQ-144, AN/ALQ-147, and AN/ALQ-157 are US infrared anti-aircraft missile countermeasure devices (IRCM). They were developed by Sanders Associates in the 1970s to counter the threat of infrared guided surface-to-air missiles like the 9K32 Strela-2. While decoy flares were effective at jamming first generation infra-red guided missiles, each flare was only effective for a short period. 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

military technology

anti-missile system for commercial airliners

device designed to protect aircraft from infrared homing missiles

Type of aircraft radar

The Seagnat Control System (sometimes spelled SeaGnat or Sea Gnat) is a British decoy system produced by System Engineering & Assessment (SEA) Ltd firing rounds produced by Chemring Countermeasures Ltd used on many NATO warships to safeguard against incoming missiles.