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In short: Decoys work because modern targeting is expensive and sensors are imperfect. An inflatable or wooden copy that costs a tiny fraction of the real system can absorb a precision strike, waste a launcher’s limited ammunition and distort the enemy’s battle damage count. The catch is that a good decoy has to fool radar Read More
In short: radar detection range scales with the fourth root of radar cross-section, so cutting an aircraft’s RCS by a factor of 1,000 cuts detection range by only about 5.6 times. The aircraft still gets seen. The defender simply sees it late, with far less time to identify it, hand it to a battery and Read More