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Serbia in 1999 used modified microwave ovens as an Anti Radar missile honey pot. You light the sky with a decoy, the plane activates its defenses, and now the h
by smallstepforman 7y ago
Serbia in 1999 used modified microwave ovens as an Anti Radar missile honey pot. You light the sky with a decoy, the plane activates its defenses, and now the hunter is the hunted just having exhausted its defenses. Decoys are cheap.
- blackflame7000 7y agoThere are passive ways to detect a tracking radar, it's the same principle is used in dashboard speed-radar detectors. The anti-aircraft batteries are going to have to send out the first ping otherwise they would never know the aircraft is there. Anti-Aircraft batteries are constantly searching the skies with powerful radar beacons and the moment it hits the aircraft the aircraft will know where it came from.
- greedo 7y agoSome of the older Soviet era SAMs have optical guidance/cueing as well to fall back up on in the face of jamming, or wishing to avoid SEAD attacks.
- SEJeff 7y agoAnd many of the missiles SEAD strikes would use against SAMs also include visual identification for the terminal phase of flight.
- blackflame7000 7y agoOn airforce one, there is an active anti-missile laser-based system designed to send a high-intensity pulse into the optical/IR tracker on a missile warhead effectively disabling it. There's also one that uses an EMP pulse for missiles that use radar tracking instead of optical.
- SEJeff 7y agoMost of the countermeasures aboard air force one are classified.
- SEJeff 7y agoModern US fighter bombers actually carry decoys that are themselves armed. The pilots literally push a button that deploys them and the decoys themselves can be armed. The "skyborg" project involves literal armed decoys that come out of an F35. The Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie is also no joke. Suddenly, the hunter hunting the hunted becomes the prey :)