Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "SHiELD - The US Air Force New Laser Pod That Will Shoot Down Missiles" video.

There was a report came out in 1959 which stated that surface to air missiles would become so potent that no aircraft would be safe and this would be the end of aircraft flying over enemy territory. The thing which amazed me when I found out about this report was that people actually believed it. Radar guided missiles can be effected by jamming and chaff. Neither of which were new. Chaff, after all, is just what window was in WW2. And jamming signals is older then that. I understand that the first use of flares to distract heat seeking missile was by an Israeli reconnaissance pilot who was trying to distract a heat seeking missile by using the flares he carried to aluminate the battlefield at night. It worked and he went home.
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