RAF jet lasers designed to dazzle heat seeking missiles successfully tested against swarm of rockets

A LASER for RAF planes to dazzle heat-seeking missiles has been efficiently examined for the primary time in opposition to a swarm of incoming rockets.

The Ministry of Defence mentioned the lasers hit a number of targets with pinpoint accuracy.

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It claimed the missiles had been “defeated quicker than the time it takes to learn this sentence”.

The Miysis lasers “confuse” missile steerage ­techniques and steer rockets away from their targets.

They want just one,300 watts of energy — the identical as a microwave oven.

The trials in distant northern ­Sweden had been the primary time the ­Miysis lasers had “defeated a variety of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired concurrently”.

The MoD mentioned: “RAF pilots are one step nearer to being geared up with a cutting-edge laser self-protection ­system, following 100 per cent profitable live-fire trials.”

It’s anticipated to be fitted to a variety of RAF plane, together with the A400M Atlas transporter.

Miysis, made by aerospace firm Leonardo, was initially designed to save lots of helicopters from shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles.

They’re an improve to old style flares, often known as chaff, which burst out of plane like fireworks to confuse heat-seeking missiles.