OBSCURANT AND EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SCREENING SMOKE COMPOSITIONS USED IN NAVAL SHIPS

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Abstract

Obscurant and optronic decoy compositions are the pyrotechnic formulations that are an effective way to protect naval ships from optical guided missile seekers. In this work, the obscurant characteristics (i.e. the transmittance and the extinction coefficient) and the infrared emission characteristics (i.e. the infrared emission distribution and the radiance) of the obscurant and optronic decoy compositions were described. The results showed that the obscurant cloud made from the mixture of red phosphorus, Ba(NO₃)₂ and Viton rubber has a low transmittance, high extinction coefficient with 1.06 µm laser and strong infrared emission in the wavelength range of 8.0 to 14.0 µm. On the other hand, the infrared emission radiance (in the wavelength range of 2.5 to 5.0 µm) of the optronic decoy composition based on Mg-Al, hexachloroethane and Viton rubber reaches maximum values (i.e. 17.77E-3 W.cm^-2.Sr^-1) at about 17 wt% Mg-Al. Finally, the above obscurant and optronic decoy compositions can be used combination in naval ships against the anti-ship missile.