An inexpensive, efficient and lightweight integrated small decoy system
towed behind an aircraft to power an intense IR emitter for drawing in a
missile with an IR sensitive guidance system away from vulnerable parts
of a defended aircraft is combined with a system for simultaneously
cloaking the aircraft with spectral bands of atmospherically scattered UV
solar radiation reflected, and radiated from UV radiant sources mounted
on the aircraft to defend against advanced MANPADS missiles with guidance
systems sensitive to UV shadows cast by an aircraft in a background sky
radiance of atmospherically scattered solar UV. Both the reflected and
direct cloaking UV emittance may be spatially and/or temporally modulated
to confuse an incoming missile. The UV aspect of this invention may also
be combined with other C-MANPADS missiles, such as DIRCM, to provide
additional defensive capability.