AN/ALQ-144反制系統

Also known as AN/ALQ-144 IRCM, AN/ALQ-144 infra-red guided missile countermeasure, AN/ALQ-147, AN/ALQ-157, ALQ-144

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