#Kabul airport #French Evacuation Planes drop flares on the airport surroundings to counter Missiles

#Kabul airport #French Evacuation Planes drop flares on the airport surroundings

Decoy flares were developed to counter infrared homing, or “heat-seeking", missiles. The basic idea is that the magnesium in the flares burns at more than 1,000ºC, hotter than the engine exhaust of the aircraft, enough to attract a heat-seeking missile

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