Military jets can find themselves being targetted by smart missiles that are hard to evade.
Today’s invention is to use the missiles being carried by a target plane to save it from attack.
Missiles and rockets are still commonly carried on pylons under-wing. If a missile approaches, the plane can rotate the pylons and fire its missiles in situ, so as to make the whole target plane sidestep out of the way.
Timing would be critical and the g forces for the crew might be rough, but the same could be said of ejection systems. An upgraded version could have variable firing rate characteristics, to make the attacker’s job even more difficult.
