Like in real jets, heat flares, that eject from your ship and make tracking missiles follow it instead.

Capacity: 12 flares
Effectiveness: 15% per flare
Volley: 6 flares in different directions
Grid Power: 4

Though it strikes me as being a weird one to implement.

+1 to flack ... what ho fry me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast

+1

Lol, it isnt top gun, there's nothing that suggests that the missiles even use heat to find their targets. Sounds like another port option that will rarely be used

+1

If not heat, then they are a distraction to make the missiles lose their tracking. Jeez TRS, have an open mind.

Drev: he's talking about decoy flares, not flack.

-1. If you need a decoy flare, you're doing something wrong. VO missiles suck unless you take them in the face or you're in a capship, and a decoy flare would be useless in either situation (I would assume a missile could tell the difference between a flare and a big honking capship).

You'd think that with fighter jets and flares. There needs to be some way to not get hit by a missile other than dodging. It'd open the field for more powerful anti capship missiles. (faster, better tracking, more damage)

+1 to additional weapon countermeasures. Flares would only work on heat-seekers.
there's nothing that suggests that the missiles even use heat to find their targets.
TRS, read the in-game description.

Radar chaff would be useful. Especially if it triggered the proximity fuse of rockets and caused *problems* with player radar.

There already is a way to not get hit without dodging: shield turrets. Which the pilot can operate on his own, now. Another thing that could be added is flack turrets and the ability to shoot down incoming ordinance.

I made a suggestion like this a while ago. +1