DUH OF THE DAY: why not have your fighter jets shoot at people behind you? Those guys flying the propeller fighters in WW2 with machine guns that fired backwards had something going (but also aiming at the tail wind- see: Professor Henry Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
But this is genius, and how think tanks for militaries around the world did not come up with this at least 25 years earlier beats the shit out of me. I mean, it's not too expensive and employs almost the same technology and forward-facing missiles, right?
