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Abstract
Optical techniques have been developed to provide a relatively simple but effective homing heads for guided weapons over the last five decades. The original approaches tended to use single detectors operating around "two microns" in the infrared. Improvements in detector technology have enabled significant enhancements to the performance of such seekers.
Development of focal-plane array technology provided an opportunity to design and develop imaging seeker technology. This type of seeker technology appears to be resilient to conventional optical countermeasure techniques. This paper describes the development of an imaging infrared seeker to investigate potential infrared countermeasure techniques to defeat mechanisms.