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Title: Window
Post by: MAINER on December 20, 2011, 05:21:06 AM: Chaff or as the british code named it "window" was thin tin-foil strips dropped from bombers ahead of the formation and was made to disrupt radar signals. I think it would be fun to have this in AH. like say coming in ahead of a mission and all you have to do is drop the foil in the area around the base and it might work for say 5-15 minutes. I dont know how this would show up on the clipboard map because in real life it make the screen one big block of white so you could not identify individual aircraft. please discuss :salute
Title: Re: Window
Post by: VonMessa on December 20, 2011, 06:05:26 AM: Have you seen the price of aluminum these days? :O
Title: Re: Window
Post by: MAINER on December 20, 2011, 06:31:32 AM: Quote from: VonMessa on December 20, 2011, 06:05:26 AM
Have you seen the price of aluminum these days? :O

:lol
Title: Re: Window
Post by: Traveler on December 21, 2011, 01:16:00 PM: I’d think that the aircraft that were dropping the chaff still showed on the radar, As they were ahead of the chaff and their returning radar signal would be unaffected.
Title: Re: Window
Post by: MAINER on December 21, 2011, 08:35:41 PM: Quote from: Traveler on December 21, 2011, 01:16:00 PM
I’d think that the aircraft that were dropping the chaff still showed on the radar, As they were ahead of the chaff and their returning radar signal would be unaffected.

Yes i believe so but it still hid the main formation
Title: Re: Window
Post by: Rino on December 22, 2011, 06:53:38 AM: Window probably didn't work that well in daytime. Sure the radar generated a big return, but they still would know where.
It didn't block the Mark I eyeball at all :D
Title: Re: Window
Post by: MAINER on December 22, 2011, 07:14:23 AM: Quote from: Rino on December 22, 2011, 06:53:38 AM
Window probably didn't work that well in daytime. Sure the radar generated a big return, but they still would know where.
It didn't block the Mark I eyeball at all :D
:lol
Title: Re: Window
Post by: Bino on December 22, 2011, 10:23:37 PM: Quote from: VonMessa on December 20, 2011, 06:05:26 AM
Have you seen the price of aluminum these days? :O

...says the man working on a homebuilt airplane. (http://www.bearhawkaircraft.com/) ;)

But radar-jamming chaff (deployed from RAF night bombers) might be worth a try, IMHO.
Title: Re: Window
Post by: Raptor05121 on December 22, 2011, 11:39:37 PM: Quote from: Bino on December 22, 2011, 10:23:37 PM
...says the man working on a homebuilt airplane. (http://www.bearhawkaircraft.com/) ;)

But radar-jamming chaff (deployed from RAF night bombers) might be worth a try, IMHO.

they weren't just for night bombers

window was used hours before the d-day invasion to fool the germans into a raid coming from farther north of Britain instead of Normandy
Title: Re: Window
Post by: B-17 on December 23, 2011, 12:41:56 AM: ...........................

In The EARLY HOURS of the morning.

DARK.