Jet with anti-missile system leaves LAX

Kapitan · 01-18-07, 12:51 PM

Aircraft going in and out of hot point maybe such as the DHL A300's that go into baghdad and so on but it wont catch unless our sending your planes there and if there is a war no airline intelligent or thick is going to want to send £300 million quids worth of plane into that zone incase they do shoot it down.

the best thing that happend to aircraft as of recent is TCAS if they could modify that to alert of incoming missile attack then maybe the pilots could do some evasive monovers or have the cheaper option and put chaff on the planes.

CCIP · 01-18-07, 12:54 PM

Most of these missiles would be IR guided though, wouldn't they?

And given the size of the aircraft/number of engines/their general lack of concern for concealing IR (or radar, for that matter) signatures, I'd say the chances of a commercial-sized jet out-manuevering a missile are pretty small. And you'd need a LOT of chaff/flares to spoof a missile off something that big :hmm:

01-18-07, 12:51 PM	#1
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	Aircraft going in and out of hot point maybe such as the DHL A300's that go into baghdad and so on but it wont catch unless our sending your planes there and if there is a war no airline intelligent or thick is going to want to send £300 million quids worth of plane into that zone incase they do shoot it down. the best thing that happend to aircraft as of recent is TCAS if they could modify that to alert of incoming missile attack then maybe the pilots could do some evasive monovers or have the cheaper option and put chaff on the planes. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

01-18-07, 12:54 PM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Most of these missiles would be IR guided though, wouldn't they? And given the size of the aircraft/number of engines/their general lack of concern for concealing IR (or radar, for that matter) signatures, I'd say the chances of a commercial-sized jet out-manuevering a missile are pretty small. And you'd need a LOT of chaff/flares to spoof a missile off something that big :hmm: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)