This is good old American know-how applied to fixing a problem. Makes one proud to be American.
The use of the laser dazzler technology on commercial aircraft is stupid. It is not online yet with the vast majority of military equipment, while a much cheaper and simpler missile warning receiver/flare dispenser would be just as effective.
It’s not as if the flares would be going off every other takeoff, and the dispenser system is proven, reliable, and requires much less maintenance than slewing IR video cameras and slaved IR lasers.
I hated the old way of manually countering incoming vampires - you couldn’t blink and always had to bat a thousand.
Why can’t the missile actually be set to home in on the laser the way laser guided weapons do?
I wonder if they ever test these things by firing an actual (non-explosive) missile at the plane. Must be fun being a test pilot the first time they try that.
Technoology.
That’s a word meaning “New Technology”? :)
I hope it can handle more than one missile at a time, otherwise the nutballs are going to pair up and try to fire two missiles from different places and get the desired result.