From: | The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU> |
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Subject: | ECM (was Woodchucks?) |
Date: | Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:21:51 -0500 |
> And verily, did Tim Kerby hastily scribble thusly...
> |On 14 Jul 98, at 5:40, Craig J Wilhelm Jr wrote:
> |> One of these days, some wiseass is going to invent a
> |> Gurth's-Stairs-Seeking-Missile...
> |It's in R&D. Prototype Real Soon Now. ;)
> Time to start with the Radar jamming equipment and.... arrrrgh,
> whatsitcalled? Tin foil slivers launcher.....
The generic name is Chaff. The old code name for it from WWII was Window.
i have seen ideas for some improvements to it. Say you take one in 50
strips and put on a small computer chip and battery. It records the signal
of the radar hitting it and them broadcasts it repeatadly for the next
minute or two. So you not only get the reflections of the original radar
but echos from the intelegent chips and the reflections of their signals
off the regular chaff.
Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com