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To: NorseViking

We don’t fire “warning flares”.

2 posted on 02/12/2018 10:11:01 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)

To: rjsimmon

We don’t fire “warning flares”.

Correct. THose are called 'countermeasures' and are used to throw off radar or heat-seeking activities INITIATED by the bad guys.

7 posted on 02/12/2018 10:35:16 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)

To: rjsimmon; NorseViking

We don’t fire “warning flares”.

Poor translation, we do fire decoy heat signature flares to divert heat seeking missiles, so someone was worried.

8 posted on 02/12/2018 10:38:50 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)

To: rjsimmon

I read that firing flares at another plane has a particular name - which of course I have forgotten. Seems to be a tactic perhaps new I don’t know.

10 posted on 02/12/2018 10:59:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)

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