Expendable Active Decoy

Abstract

Method and system of electronic countermeasure comprising an airborne RF and IR decoy, being an independent, autonomous flying body that flies on its own, using its own aerodynamics, rotatable blades and fins, being applied as protection against Radio Frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) threats. Such an aircraft decoy comprises a body; a rotatable blade or vane disposed on the body; a power source capable of generating electrical current in response to rotation of the blade or vane; a wideband radar jammer responding to a radar signal with a wideband phantom radar signature corresponding to a phantom target; corner reflectors generating strong radar reflections corresponding to the phantom target; and an infrared source emitting a phantom infrared signature corresponding to a heat signature of the phantom target. Data stored within the decoy is destroyed automatically upon impact.

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