EWSP
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Electronic Warfare Self Protection (EWSP) is a suite of countermeasure systems fitted primarily to aircraft for the purpose of protecting the aircraft from weapons fire.
These systems can include:
These systems can include:
- DIRCM - protects against IR missiles
- Infrared countermeasures - protects against IR missiles
- Chaff (radar countermeasure)Chaff (radar countermeasure)Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe , is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of secondary...
- protects against RADAR guided missiles - Flare (pyrotechnic)Flare (pyrotechnic)A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for signalling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications...
- protects against IR missiles - etc