RAF jet lasers designed to dazzle heat seeking missiles successfully tested against swarm of rockets

A LASER for RAF planes to dazzle heat-seeking missiles has been successfully tested for the first time against a swarm of incoming rockets.

The Ministry of Defence said the lasers hit multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy.

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The Miysis laser missile guidance system is designed to ‘confuse’ missile guidance systems and steer rockets away from their targets[/caption]

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Miysis is expected to be fitted to a range of RAF aircraft, including the A400M Atlas transporter[/caption]

It claimed the missiles were “defeated faster than the time it takes to read this sentence”.

The Miysis lasers “confuse” missile guidance ­systems and steer rockets away from their targets.

They need only 1,300 watts of power — the same as a microwave oven.

The trials in remote northern ­Sweden were the first time the ­Miysis lasers had “defeated a range of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired simultaneously”.

The MoD said: “RAF pilots are one step closer to being equipped with a cutting-edge laser self-protection ­system, following 100 per cent successful live-fire trials.”

It is expected to be fitted to a range of RAF aircraft, including the A400M Atlas transporter.

Miysis, made by aerospace company Leonardo, was originally designed to save helicopters from shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles.

They are an upgrade to old-fashioned flares, also known as chaff, which burst out of aircraft like fireworks to confuse heat-seeking missiles.