Patent ID: 8672223

Claim:
A system for protecting an aircraft against one or more incoming threats, the system comprising: one or more electro-optic sensors to scan an area around the aircraft for one or more possible incoming threats, and to generate an indication signal once an incoming threat is detected; an integrated unit combining a Missile Approach Confirmation Sensor (MACS) with Directed Infra-Red Counter Measure (DIRCM), to verify the incoming threat and to activate a countermeasure against the verified incoming threat, wherein the integrated MACS with DIRCM comprises: a threat parameter generator to generate threat parameters during verification of a threat, and to provide said threat parameters to a spectrum selector to select spectrum occupancy for a countermeasure unit; and a processor to receive data from said one or more electro-optic sensors and the integrated MACS-DIRCM unit, and to select a countermeasure technique for deployment against the incoming threat.