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Hmm, considering how cheap these are to make (relatively speaking) could it make a good decoy? Basically set a bunch of these up in random places away from anything important with remote on switches and when missiles start flying power them up one at a time. They're more expensive than the anti-missile drones (those are supposedly about $1000 a piece) but they might be more effective in their own way.
Possibly but you could just put any radio signal up for a decoy, you don’t need something this fancy. Radar is just radio waves. The fancy part is collimation of the beam and sensing of the return beam. That’s what costs money.
OK, so a basic radio antenna that emits the same kinds of signals a radar would? Why isn’t every army already doing this? Sounds so obvious. Imagine if these things could start attracting missiles that cost millions to fire.
Who says we aren’t? Electronic counter measures and electronic counter counter measures are a large part of modern warfare.
It’s a cat and mouse game.
They are doing it. There is a ton of decoy and anti-decoy research
Some kinds of signal? How about the 5ghz WiFi band that uses some of the same frequencies as radar, I thinks the the channels above 100
So, turn them into ECM?