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Aircraft: self-protection
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Defending the attacker.
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Air combat has virtually ceased to exist outside of training exercises, but the proliferation of surface-to-air guided missiles has ensured that aircraft are still shot down. In the past quarter-century, over three quarters of shoot-downs have been by low-cost, widely available infrared homing, man-portable air-defence systems (Manpads). The severity of this threat is believed to have been a major factor in the US Army's decision not to deploy the Boeing AH-64 Apache to Kosovo in 1999. There are suggestions that the threat may push military helicopter cruise altitudes over southwest Asia to much higher levels. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of defensive aids suites for many manned aircraft and the larger drones. This also applies to commercial transports and business jets, ...See the full content of this document
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