34YAE GAZETCHICK E DECOY

[Paladin1cd]

I did a search and didn't find any info - what is this thing and how does it work? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, I just noticed it is part of the high digit sam mod. 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Paladin1cd

[uri_ba]

IRL it's a decoy. Its purpose is to transmit signals exactly as the real radar will (without all the actual Radar stuff).

The idea behind this is that ARM missiles, ELINT platrorms, RWR receivers All are fooled to think a living breathing radar is lurking around.

The exact usage is of course classified. But that's the jist of it. 

[Paladin1cd]

Thanks! Ok. Interesting. 

 

[moggel]

How do you set this thing up, as mission author? Is it supposed to sit near a SAM site and activate when incoming HARM is detected, or should it be positioned far out with the intention of transmitting a fake radar signal? The latter seems unlikely, from what I have seen in experiments (it never shows on my RWR, or on the HAD page). A bit weird there's no info whatsoever on how to use this.