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Originally Posted by Castout
yea like flare/chaff is able able to detonate an incoming missile. Cmmon if flares and chaffs don't detonate missile why should sub countermeasures do?
Look at WWII type torpedo fuse: magnetic and impact.
I bet there's no magnetic field generated by a countermeasure and obviously impact fuse won't detonate either. If topedo does explode on countermeasure why does Oliver Hazard Perry class employ a nixie topedo decoy? The safest would be to throw lots of CMs and the threat torps would explode on them.
In short CMs only spoof/fool the sensor/homing devices and has got no effect on detonation devices/fuses. I think 
But then again one could question how do you know that chaffs and flares don't detonate incoming missiles? I know because if chaffs and flares do detonate incoming missiles, all tanks would have employed them. I don't see any tanks employing a flares dispenser(only smoke and anti missile missile system). The reason tanks don't employ flares dispenser is because their land speed is infinitely small compared to the incoming missile speed so spoofing the missile sensor would be ineffective as the location of that tank is relatively unchanged. I think.  |
flare and chaff detonate A2A and G2A missiles because most of the modern missiles have proximity fuses which means that the warhead detonates when the missile thinks that the target is within the blast radious. If the missile is spoofed it thinks that the flare/chaff is the plane it detonates a couple of feet away from the flare.
Tanks dont have flares/chaff because
1- they are too slow
2- Anti tank missiles work in a completely diffrent way (laser, GPS, TV... guidance)