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Dash 80 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 309 posts, RR: 2
Posted (10 years 2 months 9 hours ago) and read 1033 times:

Does anyone know what the aray of small mirror-like squares are behind the main rotor?

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Every time I see a Sikorsky H-60 I always wonder what this is.

...where the rubber hits the runway...

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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 1, posted (10 years 2 months 9 hours ago) and read 1009 times:

Are you refering to the coffee can looking thing behind the rotor?

It is a IR Jammer.

Keeps protable missles from locking on you.

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Dash 80 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 309 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (10 years 2 months 9 hours ago) and read 999 times:

Yeah, thats what I'm referring to, thanks.

How does that work?

Do other helicopters have this?

...where the rubber hits the runway...

L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 3, posted (10 years 2 months 5 hours ago) and read 1002 times:

It is a pretty standard piece of gear but I will do a lousy job of explaining it.

Picture going into a dark room and looking at a light bulb. Then somebody turns on the light all of a sudden and then switching them off again. Usually if you aren't expecting it you see this "hot spot" where the light bulb was for a few seconds.

That is what those jammers do. Those little squares are mirrors that heat up.

The idea is if an infrared seeker locks in on the aircraft that jammer will create little hot spots on the seeker to the point where it can't distigish between a real target and one of those hot spots. So it looses track of you.

This is the samething they are talking about fitting to airliners now. Some bizjets allready have kits for it.

OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.

Dash 80 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 309 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (10 years 2 months 4 hours ago) and read 997 times:

Thanks for the help!

...where the rubber hits the runway...

JohnM From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 310 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (10 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1020 times:

Most often called the disco ball.

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