Originally Posted by mach 4.0
By the way some civilian aircraft do have ECM pods. Why is that when it is so unlikely to need one? Perhaps DEW/ NEMP is a concern to the customer.
ECM pods have nothing to do with the effects of NEMP/DEW
. They are designed to avoid radar lock-on etc and some dispense flares/chaff to deter inbound threats.
Please move this thread to JetBlast. Purely hypothetical. It's like asking the manufacturer of a Japenese fishing trawler to design inbuilt protection in case a cow falls out of the sky from an IL76 flying overhead
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I don't see that is the prerogative of the mods to dictate precisely what subjects may or may not be discussed .. provided they have some merit and are relevant to flying, they can stay .. provided that the tone of the discussion remains at least reasonable