Nulka

It has a unique design in that it hovers in mid-air while drawing the incoming anti-ship missile.

The hovering rocket concept was initiated in Australia by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), and the system was designed, developed and then manufactured by AWA Defence Industries) (now BAE Systems Australia).

By July 2017, Nulka had been fitted to more than 150 Australian, Canadian, and United States warships,[4] and over 1,400 decoys had been produced.

[5] As of October 2010[update], it was expected that the system would be fitted to U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carriers as well as Australia's future destroyers.

[7] In 2012, Lockheed Martin announced that it had successfully tested its new ExLS (Extensible Launching System) for Nulka.

A Nulka decoy being launched from a warship