The support package: silence a radar with SEAD — destroyed for good, or suppressed only inside a timing window — slip its Doppler filter by beaming it, or jam it from outside every ring. A standoff jammer holds its range Rj while the target closes, so J/S ∝ Rt4/Rj2, times the gain the radar points at the jammer: the mainlobe on the jammer's azimuth, a sidelobe everywhere else. That carves a narrow strobe into the jammed contour — a standoff jammer protects a corridor, not a sky.
Suppression versus destruction and the SEAD window, the beam/notch maneuver, standoff J/S and burn-through in the mainlobe and the sidelobes, the strobe and its corridor, and deconfliction.
FlashcardsKey terms and relations from the lesson, in a self-test deck.
Pre-flightFive questions to work before class — anyone can be called to the board.
SlidesThe deck we work through in class — an HTML deck you can annotate in the browser, with a print view for saving a PDF.
DemoDrag a standoff jammer and a striker around a radar and watch the jammed contour grow its strobe — then add a second radar and see why one jammer covers one corridor.