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I'm sure there's active "flarey" body heat modulation for missiles looking for plane bodies..

• dingaling 6mo ago
  It's difficult to decoy because the missile's processor is programmed to know what typical aircraft profiles look like; for example a transport aircraft has two or four propellors with hot leading edges, numerous turbine exhausts and warm leading edges. A flare is a seen as a hot ball, in contrast. To decoy that, the decoy needs to basically _be_ the aircraft.