• teft@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Possibly but you could just put any radio signal up for a decoy, you don’t need something this fancy. Radar is just radio waves. The fancy part is collimation of the beam and sensing of the return beam. That’s what costs money.

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      OK, so a basic radio antenna that emits the same kinds of signals a radar would? Why isn’t every army already doing this? Sounds so obvious. Imagine if these things could start attracting missiles that cost millions to fire.

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        Who says we aren’t? Electronic counter measures and electronic counter counter measures are a large part of modern warfare.

        It’s a cat and mouse game.

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        Some kinds of signal? How about the 5ghz WiFi band that uses some of the same frequencies as radar, I thinks the the channels above 100