The IR flare OMI-MJU-7 has the standard 2" x 1" cross section and can be fired from a variety of launching systems such as AN/ALE-40, AN/ALE-45 and AN/ALE-47 with which are equipped modern tactical aircraft. The flare itself is a pressed pellet of a magnesium/teflon formulation required to produce high radiation output characteristics. The pellet is specially prepared to give very fast reliable ignition. An electrical ignition system, fitted to the base of the flare, only operates under the acceleration of ejection. Accidental ignition is prevented by a bore-rider which only allows functioning to occur after the flare has left the cartridge case.

Decoy flare production.

Flares loaded on a/c countermeasure dispenser.

The OMI-M206 IR flare (equivalent to NSN 1370-01-048-2138 is a countermeasure for various rotary and fixed wing aircraft. It is standard NATO 1x1x8 inch type. Main application platforms include AH-1 Cobra, CH-47 Chinook, OV-10 Bronco, UH-1 Huey, UH-60, AH-64 Apache, OH-58 Kiowa and others.The flare is an integral one piece MT (Magnesium - Teflon) payload in an aluminum cartridge case. It is dispensed from various multiple dispensers such as M130, AN/ALE-40, AN/ALE-45, AN/ALE-47 and others. It is activated using impulse cartridge (squib) type OMI-BBU-35 or similar.

Ordtech Military Industries offers to Mig-29 operators a complete range of advanced Countermeasures : New generation IR flares, Radar Decoys Chaff and Squibs.

The original Soviet cartridge PPI calibre 26,5 mm for flares or chaff which features a wax-paper body is replaced by a modern design of advanced performance and reliability. The original impulse cartridge (squib) is also replaced by a more powerful and reliable unit.

The OMI flare (OMI-PPI-26) and chaff (OMI-CHF-26) is fully functional with the existing dispensing system BVP-30-26M and self protection suite which equips Mig-29 aircraft and no modifications are required to the self protection SUVP-29 system. These countermeasures are already in operational use on Mig-29 a/c serving with a number of Air Forces worldwide.

The OMI countermeasures offer superb performance against the most advanced IR and Radar guided air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles and can be customised to meet the particular threats that a Customer will specify.

Magnesium-Teflon (MT) or Magnesium-Teflon-Viton (MTV) decoy flares are well known countermeasures for protection of tactical aircraft (fixed and rotary wing) against the threat of infrared seeker equipped missiles. They are easy to manufacture at reasonable cost, easy to operate and quite effective against simple IR-Seekers.

Their efficiency however diminishes while operating at high altitudes and at high cruising speeds. Furthermore their ability to deceive modern advanced seekers, especially those operating on image processing is extremely limited.

Ordtech Military Industries has developed the GA9116, a new generation of IR decoy flares, highly capable to protect against these threats. The GA9116 provides ultimate similarity in wavelength distribution compared to aeroengine axhaust gases and extremely similar plume. Most beneficial GA9116 does not require new design of cartridge cases, launchers, controls, etc, being supplied in known configurations such as MJU-8, MJU-7, PPI, etc.

The graph shows typical relative magnitudes of radiation intensity comparing aircraft signature with common Magnesium-Teflon (MT) / Magnesium-Teflon-Viton (MTV) decoy flares and the newly designed GA9116 by OMI. It clearly shows that the wavelength signature of GA9116 is almost parallel to a typical jet plane one, but at relatively higher intensity. Compared to the signature of an MT/MTV flare above 3.5µm the flare GA9116 is by far more intense, this increasing decoy probabilities against most modern seekers with spectrum discrimination and/or image-processing capabilities.