Environmental Flare Countermeasures

The module title:Future Developments; Scanning the horizon in Explosive Ordnance Engineering.Horizon Scanning is a systematic process that serves as an “early warning system” to inform decision-makers about possible future opportunities and threats. It identifies technologies, innovations, and trends with the potential to cause future disruptions, both positive and negative.The target here is doing a research on how to protect the environment from Flares (Countermeasure) in the future.Aircraft use decoy flares (countermeasure) such as MTV Flare to thwart heat-seeking missiles, to give off an infrared signal that mimics the aircraft engine’s infrared signature, so the missile goes after the flare rather than the plane or helicopter. These military flares are used to ptoect the aircraft from missiles but at the same time impact the environment.In military operations, the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program sponsor an extensive series of efforts to make Flare (countermeasure) materials friendlier to the environment.Points to include in the research paper:- Introduction- Environemntal Legislations: for example; Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, etc,.- What is the impact of manufacturing processes of MTV Flare as presently used?- What is the effect of use MTV Flares – on the environment? What are the toxicity effects of MTV Flare?- How MTV Flares threat the environment?- How may the flares be improved in the future to protect the environment at the same time give an effective result to protect the aircraft from the messile?- Propose environmentally friendly replacement material available or likely to become available for the future rather than MTV Flare?- How may the flares be improved in the future to protect the environment at the same time give an effective result to protect the aircraft from the messile? and how it might work in the future?- Come up with some suggestion- Present the problems and solutions- Showing a table of pros and cons of different flare (countermeasure) such as MTV, MTH, MTTP and other flares(Air countermeasure).- Future Considerations.Please find the attachment. It’s including useful information and getting an overview of the topic.https://www.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Weapons-Systems-and-Platforms/Energetic-Materials-and-Munitions/Pyrotechnics/WP-1240