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Countermeasures can act against target acquisition systems that depend on Electronic , thermal, Infrared , optical, or Radar technology. Countermeasures are most popularly associated with Aircraft defense, with examples including metallic foil Chaff and to disrupt radar detection, Decoy Flare s to disrupt infrared, and Electronic Countermeasures to disrupt other targeting and communications systems. However, land and sea-based forces can also use such countermeasures as well as Smoke-screen s that can disrupt Laser ranging, infrared detection, laser weapons, and visual observation. Countermeasures are a complicating factor in the development Anti-ballistic Missile defense systems targeting ICBM 's. Like aircraft, ICBM 's theoretically could evade such systems by deploying decoys and chaff in the midcourse phase of flight. Novel proposed chaff mechanisms describe the creation of a "threat cloud" by deploying of large alluminized PET Film Balloon which could conceal a warhead among a large number of inert objects having similar radar profiles. In the wake of Missile attacks against civilian passenger and cargo Airliner s in the early 2000 's, various agencies investigated the feasibility of equipping countermeasures Chaff and Flare s. Many commercial carriers found the estimated price of countermeasures to be too costly. However, the Israel i airline El-Al , having been the target of a failed Missile attack in Mombassa , Kenya in 2002 , equipped its fleet with radar-enabled, automated Flare release countermeasures in May 2004 . SEE ALSO
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