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From: robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: About F/A-18
Keywords: ECM
Message-ID: <1845@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 20:00:03 GMT
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In article <1209@sdrc.UUCP> evtracy@sdrc.UUCP (Tracy Schuhwerk) writes:
>In article <22045@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, ypcazabon@rose.waterloo.edu (Yvan Cazabon) writes:
>> I believe ECM is short for "Electronic Counter Measures" 
>> I've always been dependent on the kindness of NET-strangers.
>Your belief is correct.  ECM is the acronym for Electronic Counter Measures.
>It'll help keep ground radar from picking you up as quick.
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I don't think so.  I believe it allows ground radar to pick you up quicker,
(that's one of its drawbacks), but it will help prevent that incomming missle
from locking on you.  (From my (limited) understanding of it, ECM broadcasts
a wide radar beam, so that incoming radar guided missles cannot tell exactly 
where the plane is, causing them to miss.  Broadcasting a wide dispersal 
radar beam will undoubtably tell the enemy that you are near.)

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