Originally Posted by
MPN11
As for airfield cam ... loads of radar reflectors, including ‘false positive’ IPs, is a fairly cheap option. And fill the ‘black hole’ of the airfield’s radar/IR signature ... again cheap and easy. At high speed, low level, it doesn’t take a lot to confuse or throw off aim in a SAM-intense environment (if we had one).
So what was the reason that we never deployed radar distraction or jammers but thought it well worthwhile painting a few ex-WW2 Airfields green?
In our case we could use an aiming point up to 28 miles from a target. Using conventional weapons we would have needed aiming points much closer to the target. Neither paint nor radar reflectors could not hide our aiming points.