Survivability of Aircraft to Terrorist Missile Threats

We propose to research the use of a hit point decoy, attached to the body of aircraft to increase the survivability of aircraft from sholder launched aint-aircraft missiles. The hit point decoy will radiate infrared energy that will cause the attackingmissile todeviate its course away from critical aircraft areas and instead, impact the aircraft at a hardened, less critcal point where the aircraft will not be fatally damaged. Our innovation is to propose a decoy that will radiate its IR energy inwavelength band in approximately the same ratio as an aircraft. In the lexion of the countermeasure community, the decoy will have a