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Pretty much. There's a recent video going around of a Russian helicopter in Ukraine firing off all its flares in panic after its sister helicopter is taken out

Pretty much. There's a recent video going around of a Russian helicopter in Ukraine firing off all its flares in panic after its sister helicopter is taken out by MANPADS. Predictably, the Ukrainians wait until he runs out, and then he gets taken out anyway. Not that hard to search for it.

krisoft 4y ago
Indeed. I was thinking about the same video in response to this question. Here is a link: https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1517817773199699977 https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1517817773199699977
- oconnor663 4y ago
  It seems like the natural next step would be "automatically deploy countermeasures while you still have [some threshold] remaining, then revert to manual below that," but I can also see how needing to train pilots in two or more different modes starts to pile up complexity costs and maybe leads to more mistakes compared to a simpler system.
  - megous 4y ago
    I'm not sure the pilot would even notice the missile to do anything about it manually..
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