Lesson 18 — Active Deception#
Trade shouting for lying. Instead of burying the real return in noise, deception hands the radar a convincing false one and lets it track that — built on DRFM, walked off the target with range-gate pull-off, and fought back by leading-edge tracking.
Reading
Active Deception
Deception vs noise, the DRFM repeater, range- and velocity-gate pull-off, false targets and decoys, and the radar counters.
FlashcardsReview deck
Key terms and relations from the lesson, in a self-test deck.
Pre-flightPre-flight quiz
Five questions to work before class — anyone can be called to the board.
SlidesLesson slides
The deck we work through in class — an HTML deck you can annotate in the browser, with a print view for saving a PDF.
DemoDRFM Deception
Capture a pulse, plant a cover pulse, then ramp the delay to walk the range gate off the target and blink off.