Method and device for providing a dummy target for protecting a vehicle and/or an object from radar-guided seeker heads

A device for providing a dummy target via decoys for protecting a vehicle and/or object from radar-guided missiles, the device comprising:

• at least one sensor for identifying the missile after detecting an attack by the missile;
• at least one decoy launch system having at least one launcher, the decoy launch system being connected to the sensor directly or via a combat management system;
• and
• a database implemented in the decoy launch system, information about a multiplicity of known missiles being stored in the database,
• wherein the decoy launch system in reaction to a knowledge of the missile type, specifies a decoy pattern with the disintegration or detonation points of the decoys present in the decoy launch system in a decoy pattern in accordance with a firing of shots after calculation, and
• wherein the disintegration or detonation points are represented in a polar co-ordinate system and, in a firing control system of the decoy launch system, a point cloud is optimized with the aid of a cluster analysis of the point cloud.