Reusable off-board Missile Decoy

Description

Anti-ship missiles fly at 3-5 m in terminal phase of 10-12 km at speeds upto 3 Mach. The reaction time for Anti-Missile Defense (AMD) is therefore about 10-25 sec. AMD measures include 'Hard kill' measures (physical destruction of the incoming threat through the use of Surface to Air Missiles or Close in Weapon Systems) and 'Soft kill' measures (anti-missile decoys, Jamming or Chaff). Modern missiles are designed with ECCM against conventional Chaff & Jamming. Seekers also have ARM home-on features. Active Missile Decoys can impersonate target ship RCS and can be effective as a soft kill AMD measure in terminal phase of the incoming missile. Further, decoys can also radiate transmissions such that missiles which passively home on to radiation are also decoyed.