{"id":782,"date":"2020-09-09T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/?p=782"},"modified":"2020-09-09T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:27:46","slug":"decoy-flares-great-balls-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/decoy-flares-great-balls-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoy Flares: Great Balls of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Decoy Flares: Great Balls of Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Sootheran: Combat Aircraft 10\/2020<\/p>\n<p>Heat-seeking missiles were responsible for around 80% of US aircraft losses in Operation Desert Storm. Decoy flares, aka aerial infra-red countermeasures, burn at more than 3&#8217;600 deg F and are designed to seduce the missiles away from their intended target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/decoy-flares-great-balls-of-fire\/2020_10-flares-combat-aircraft\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-783\">2020_10, Flares, Combat Aircraft<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-784\" style=\"width: 2166px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/decoy-flares-great-balls-of-fire\/screenshot-at-sep-09-21-25-49\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-784\" src=\"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2166\" height=\"1530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49.jpg 2166w, https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49-1536x1085.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-at-Sep-09-21-25-49-2048x1447.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2166px) 100vw, 2166px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Combat Aircraft 10\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoy Flares: Great Balls of Fire John Sootheran: Combat Aircraft 10\/2020 Heat-seeking missiles were responsible for around 80% of US aircraft losses in Operation Desert Storm. Decoy flares, aka aerial infra-red countermeasures, burn at more than 3&#8217;600 deg F and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luftverteidigung.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}