The top thing is a TALD, a UAV that is launched from fighter jets and used as a decoy for air defenses as it has a radar jammer.
How radar guided SAMs work is that they must paint a target for the missile to home in on and hit, or the missile is painting its own target using radar.
Imagine a night raid in WWII with bombers being lit up with searchlights to be hit by flak. It’s the same basically just with radar waves instead of visible light, and the flak rounds can steer themselves.
Now in this analogy, the TALD is like a flare that’s lit up in front of the formation that’s so shiny you can barely tell how far it is, and you cam definitely not see the dark bomber formation coming in after it.
This reminds me of Timothy Leary’s observation in his memoir, Flashbacks.
Paraphrasing, he said that during the early years of American drug experimentation, especially with LSD, the headlines were always along the lines of “while high on acid, the teen jumped off a roof, probably believing he could fly.” Parents, teachers, etc would warn kids that this is what happened when you experimented with drugs.
Leary maintained these headlines were in part responsible for this behavior. A solitary teen experiments with acid. It kicks in. The teen then says to himself, “Wow. Okay. What’s supposed to happen next I wonder?” and then recalls, “Oh yeah, I’m supposed to jump off a roof.”
Set, Setting, and Dosage kids. “Learn it. Know it. Live it.”
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