Lesson 36 — SEAD, Maneuvers, and Standoff Jamming

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 R_j while the target closes, so J/S ∝ R_t⁴/R_j², 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.

Reading

SEAD, Maneuvers, and Standoff Jamming

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.

Flashcards

Review deck

Key terms and relations from the lesson, in a self-test deck.

Pre-flight

Pre-flight quiz

Five questions to work before class — anyone can be called to the board.

Slides

Lesson 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.

Demo

Standoff Jamming

Drag 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.