Window

[blkmgc]

Now that would be cool. Also a use for bomber  points.

[wstpt10]

Originally posted by blkmgc
Now that would be cool. Also a use for bomber  points.

Could be interesting...

[Spikes]

window?

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by blkmgc
Now that would be cool. Also a use for bomber  points.

"This is the Police, step away from the pipe sir!"

[wstpt10]

Originally posted by spikes
window?

Strips of foil dropped before heavies came on the German radar scope, messed with the radar returns.

[Spikes]

OH, yes, the window affect...dropped out of C-47s and Flying Boxcars

[didn't know what you meant by 'window']

[CptA]

Window is the British term for CHAFF - small strips of metal foil dropped from an aircraft to hide the true size and location of a formation of planes.

Most often used by bombers to foil the aim of night-fighters and radar controlled anti-aircraft artillery.

CptA

[Krusty]

The window didn't prevent the radar, it just created a much larger signature. Decoys, basically. The spotlights were radar operated, and when they latched on it was certain death for any bomber. By giving them more to "lock on" to, it gave the bomber more chance to survive.

Something like that.

[Denholm]

Don't really see much use for it, because the majority of AH is in planes, not spotlights searching for bombers to blaze with their 5" CV guns.

[Spikes]

well,, you could fly a c47 or like a b26 over an enemy field and drop them...it could give a mission 10 mins of no radar....

[Lusche]

Originally posted by spikes
well,, you could fly a c47 or like a b26 over an enemy field and drop them...it could give a mission 10 mins of no radar....

Wouldn`t it be much easier and more effective to up a Jabo instead and drop the enemy dar tower?

[FTJR]

Wouldn`t it be much easier and more effective to up a Jabo instead and drop the enemy dar tower?

^^^

But, for the sake of argument, you could fly into a sector, drop the window. The DAR BAR goes completely RED, but you see no icons on the DAR itself.

So they know someone is in the area, but not the numbers or their location if within radar range. You could run feint attacks, and frustrate the defence of a particular area.

Lasts 5 minutes...

[blkmgc]

Originally posted by Denholm
Don't really see much use for it, because the majority of AH is in planes, not spotlights searching for bombers to blaze with their 5" CV guns.

Welp, as a bomber pilot, we deal with inflight radar and darbar which is a tad much in the general arenas (but I'm cool with it). Window would give someone with the patience to actually use it, another means of throwing off the radar at the same time having to make an effort at it.

[Spikes]

Originally posted by Lusche
Wouldn`t it be much easier and more effective to up a Jabo instead and drop the enemy dar tower?

what if it is in a historical arena?

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by FTJR
^^^

But, for the sake of argument, you could fly into a sector, drop the window. The DAR BAR goes completely RED, but you see no icons on the DAR itself.

So they know someone is in the area, but not the numbers or their location if within radar range. You could run feint attacks, and frustrate the defence of a particular area.

Lasts 5 minutes...

Um, we discussed this ACTUALLY happening a few months back.   I won't name names or anything, but we had "the effect" without it's use.   Probe a base, hit another base.   Rinse, repeat.