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Originally Posted by forget
Originally there were three Red Shrimp, with three Power Units. Two Blue Diver and one Green Palm, the VHF Jammer. There was an L Band Jammer which, I think, meant a Blue Diver being removed.
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Both Blue Divers were retained and the L-band jammer replaced a Red Shrimp.
I don't know but it is conceivable that the L-band jammer was simply a Red Shrimp operating at 1 GHz rather than 2.2-2.4 GHz.
The Green Palm may only have had 4 frequencies but then the Soviet era fighters only had 4 as well. Rather than try and jam the frequency that you thought might be targetted at you, the whole force was instructed to jam, IIRC, channel 3. This was the broadcast control frequency.
I guess the idea was that the other channels were for recover and individual intercept control. They would be self-jammed by the IAVPOStrany trying to avoid the main broadcast channel.
Once the force went low level the Green Palms would only be switched on at the final climb point.