Rod, as an USAF retiree, I disagree.
We have all kinds of countermeasures for these weapons but most importantly, you give us a mission to save some of our own people and we’ll gladly die trying.
Anyway, chaff, anti-radar, flares plus stand off systems and attack platforms meant to lock on and destroy ground sensors (like someone “painting” the sky with infrared sensors). They’d be destroyed and blowed up good!
Not sure I understand. If the terrorists inside the grounds of the Bengahzi mission had shoulder fired rockets they would not have been able to shoot down our planes that came to rescue our guys? Is that how it works?
I was going to give a similar reply, too, but you said it a whole lot better than I could have.