The Bulldogs and Chippies had a light comms war role. I remember acting as an observer whilst an APO on the UAS for our yearly practice. One exercise was helping the Police divert traffic round a blocked A1. Ten minutes in, the exercise turned real when an HGV overturned, and we made ourselves useful for an hour, then back home for tea & medals.
As shown in the 1984 WWIII drama 'Threads' at 1.26.55
Anyhow EMP effects are very overrated. Yes it will cause massive effects on certain bits of unprotected electronic equipment in use at the time of the attack, but use surge protection on the power supplies and aerial feeders, shield the equipment in an earthed metal box (faraday cage) and fit optical isolators on any copper signal cables coming in (or use fibre optics) and the effects on electronic equipment are almost zero. On unprotected valve operated equipment the effects are minimal. Anything that cannot be protected when in use, ensure you have a spare stored in an earthed metal box, replace the burnt out item after the attack and carry on fighting. Anything not in use, disconnect the antennas and power supplies and ensure the thing is connected to earth (which of course the guys in the civil ECP in Sheffield forget to do when the Air Attack Red warning is called. As regards true EW, try jamming a Type 85 at full power.
...The Central plot is looking a bit sad as well. 2 Blinder's made it past the extended CAP and got off 2 ARM's at about 80 miles. Boulmer is now a burning wreck...
What was the ARM's front end??? Nukes
. To be honest I would suspect that the receiver in the homing head on a Soviet long range ARM would get fried and it would go ballistic before it got anywhere near a T85 Site at full power
. Plus of course their was a big red kill button in the engineering bridge of the R12 that shut down all of the site radars that could be pressed if a Mach 4 target started heading the station's way. No signal, no homing
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