Chaff

[artik]

It was used during WW2... It can be cool fooling the radar using Chaff. It should be available on some heavy bombers like: B-17, B-29, B-24, Ju-88 etc.

[Butcher]

It was used during WW2... It can be cool fooling the radar using Chaff. It should be available on some heavy bombers like: B-17, B-29, B-24, Ju-88 etc.

Specially modified bombers used them, They were called RCM - Lancaster, Wellington and Hallifax bombers (for example) were the ones that first started using it in 1943. Problem is I don't know how it would work out in the Main Arena or Scenarios.

[gyrene81]

if it worked properly, the dar would show nothing but a big red blob...do that at 20k with a single plane just inside the dar circle of a base then after a bunch of cons up from the base to intercept, sneak an noe mishun from another direction. that is until people figure out how what's going on....

[save]

the TWC-hoarde already look like a big red blob on radar

[Karnak]

if it worked properly, the dar would show nothing but a big red blob...do that at 20k with a single plane just inside the dar circle of a base then after a bunch of cons up from the base to intercept, sneak an noe mishun from another direction. that is until people figure out how what's going on....

I don't think it would be good for the game.  Too much avoiding combat as it is.

[Dragon Tamer]

I don't think it would be good for the game.  Too much avoiding combat as it is.

This.

[gyrene81]

I don't think it would be good for the game.  Too much avoiding combat as it is.

no argument there... 

[kano]

I don't think it would be good for the game.  Too much avoiding combat as it is.

Yep agree

[colmbo]

Or perhaps the use of chaff would promote combat.  I can see where the bomber pilot might feel he has a better chance of surviving/completing mission if he can spoof the radar as he's inbound.

[dedalos]

Or perhaps the use of chaff would promote combat.  I can see where the bomber pilot might feel he has a better chance of surviving/completing mission if he can spoof the radar as he's inbound.

ahhh promote combat by avoiding combat. Interesting 

[Rino]

     I don't understand why it is so hard to get that chaff is not very useful in a daylight intercept.
"OOOH look, pretty sparkly strips of aluminum coming out of that Lancaster....I'm sooooo distracted!"
 

     "Black 6, be advised that enormous radar blob is still in 10-12-6 like it has for the past 35 minutes"

[XxDaSTaRxx]

It was used during WW2... It can be cool fooling the radar using Chaff. It should be available on some heavy bombers like: B-17, B-29, B-24, Ju-88 etc.

+1 

[Meatwad]

I personally seen this deployed from a WW2 aircraft in a movie so it must be 100% accurate, right?