Jamming

[SmartMoose]

I noticethat there will be some sort of jamming device that can be used by eningeers and the like, but does anyone know if it will be possible to have jamming equipment onboard any of the aircraft?

And it needn't be a totally unbalanced thing. It could be like in real life, where the radar can eventually "burn through" the jamming. Anyways, thats just a thought I had.

[Flameseeker]

There is a jammer nade, and I hope that it screws up radar. I don't think aircraft should jam, people would take advantage of it.

[Fire_Monkey]

wow this poll is biased

[Zetre]

i can just immagine launching the massive jam missle at someone now (haha, think spaceballs)
"strawberry, only a fruity vanu soldier would jam me with strawberry"

[Observer105]

LOL....thats pretty funny.
I don't think aircrafts should carry any sort of jamming, unnessecary, and a little cheap.

[SmartMoose]

I'm not saying every vehicel or soldiear should be ble to. but if, say, a Mosquito, or maybe a Galaxy (but without any payload) could carry a jammer, you could pull of some really sweet stratagies off. Either covering a massive drop, or even just a minorone, or just for the sheer nuisance value. I just thought it would be a cool idea. Read "Red Storm Rising" for some examples of how Radar Jamming can do some sweet shit in the 'real world'

[Ludio]

If they ever do empire specific aircraft, like a bomber, then I could see the Vanu having a stealth aricraft that didn't have the same health/power as the others. I think that would be a cool, and realistic (according to their storyline) way of implementing it.

[SmartMoose]

not stealth, which would be passive anti-radar, but jamming, which is active. and if your radar was getting jammed, you would know, you just couldn't see anything in that area until you achieveed burn through

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Originally posted by Ludio
If they ever do empire specific aircraft, like a bomber, then I could see the Vanu having a stealth aricraft that didn't have the same health/power as the others. I think that would be a cool, and realistic (according to their storyline) way of implementing it.

That's an interesting idea but the devs would need to balance it out somehow. They aren't going to give one empire a large advantage like that.

[TerraxNovae]

The Mosquito already IS stealth compared to the other two. It helps it's role as a scout.

[KeviN]

Giant sheets of jamming nalpalm (sp) anyone? That would be something an empire specific bomber could carry.

[Mikedanad]

Originally posted by Flameseeker
There is a jammer nade, and I hope that it screws up radar. I don't think aircraft should jam, people would take advantage of it.

Mabye a possible attachment jammer that you can remotly turn on and lasts for about 30 seconds? that'd be cool as hell, like you attach it to your skeeter (well a passenger attaches it) and you fly over an enemy base and so you flip on your jammer just before you pass and itll turn off quickly, but leave enough time to get across without getting noticed. If this would be too easy, make it jam EVERYTHING in a small area for 30 seconds that way hte enemy base would see their defences on map...then dissappear for a second (as skeeter flies over it w/ jammer on) and then reappear..possibly not noticed, unless there is a good defender on duty...? Mabye? I'd like opinions please.

[Kadreal]

Jamming napalm? that's a neat trick. Jamming is where you confuse the decive trying to detect you, i don't see how fire would do that considering that thermal EM radition is no-where near radar frequencey... Usaaull method are to pulse the radar dish with a self geneirated signal, or bouncing one off somewhere else to confuse which signal is it's own and which one is the targets, another method is a Chaff, where strip of alumminum are realeased, the alumminum reflects the radar and gives and second "target" to worry about. More advanced radar systems with complex algrorymes are capable of sorting thourgh chaff and low level signal "spamming" jamming.