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Parent topics
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
Subtopics
- ADM-20 Quail [r]: A small jet-powered decoy launched from B-52 bombers in the 1960s, which imitated the radar signature of a B-52 as well as releasing chaff and generating a heat signature, to act as a deceptive decoy [e]
- AN/ALE-50 [r]: An expendable, actively transmitting radar decoy pod that is towed behind the aircraft it protects [e]
- AN/ALE-55 [r]: An active electronic attack remote device targeted at radar, spooled out by an AN/ALE-47 dispenser, which can run through the flame of an afterburner and, at the end of its tether, act as a deceptive decoy trackbreaker or a seductive sacrificial decoy [e]
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Other related topics
- Camouflage [r]: "The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy" (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff) [e]
- Chaff (electronic warfare) [r]: A passive, disposable radar countermeasure using strips of metal foil or aluminized plastic, cut to match the wavelength of the expected radar, and used to send false reflections back to the radar receiver [e]
- Sacrificial decoy [r]: Using electronic warfare techniques, a (usually) mobile transmitting device that will lure an enemy weapon to attack it rather than the real platform it is protecting [e]
- Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
