Ship to ship EW?

[ASWnut101]

Originally Posted by Dr.Sid

I understand .. but why do I need the return where there is the radio playing ? It must be even easier for missiles to home on strong 'jammer' instead of radar returns.

Because they can't hear their own returns. They hear your "radio."


P.S. I may have not explained it well enough. I'll try agian.

(This is something you can actually try at your house) Imagine that your ears are a set of RADAR emiiter/receivers. Take a coin and toss it against a metal surface. The coin acts as your RADAR "ping," and the noise you hear from the impact of the coin is the return signal. Now, take a radio, put in the loudest, crappiest music you can find (preferably heavy metal ), and turn it on. Turn the volume up really loud. The radio acts as the enemy's jammer. Throw the coin again. What do you hear?:hmm: The music. You can't recieve the RADAR return. All you get is a mass of noise from everywhere. This is essentially RADAR jamming.