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From: cperlebe@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (Chris Perleberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sparrow Missile (was Re: Libyan aircraft)
Summary: Decoys and AAMs
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Date: 20 Jan 89 05:06:14 GMT
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>          Along the same lines, he may eject "chaff" bundles. Chaff is
>usually metal coated plastic strips designed to provide a radar
>reflection.  

How effective is chaff at decoying radar missiles?  Does a bundle have a 
10% chance of throwing a missile off?  20%?  More? For that matter, how 
effective are flares against IR missiles?  AAM's cost a lot of money, and
now that most aircraft are built with internal dispensers (I think, 
anyway), is firing AAMs a waste of money?