- track the missile, firing a laser at the seeker aperture, blinding it and modulating the frequency so as to interfere with the internal signals that the missile uses for tracking, causing it to steer away from the target.

Currently deployed DIRCM systems on aircraft include Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-24 Nemesis & CIRCM (used on the 160th SOAR helicopters carrying the US special forces), Leonardo Miysis.

A cheaper alternative to such systems, since the Igla-S has a dual band seeker, is to use "dark"/spectral flares, which run cooler and emit minimal UV, more closely approximating an aircraft.

To overcome the missile's logic assessing that a flare decelerates much faster than the aircraft, kinematic dark flares which keep pace with it, would be used. Another alternative is for the aircraft to brake hard when releasing such flares.