Each launcher has six launch tubes and is capable of firing illuminating rounds or chaff rounds to counter hostile radars and radar guided missiles.
The antenna mounted under the Lear's belly would warn them if they were detected by 5xe hostile radar.
You say it was a hostile radar.
New contacts came onto Jeffrey's tactical plot, showing the range and bearing to far-off hostile radars.
AGM-45 Shrike is an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile anti-aircraft radar.
Now, no matter how fast or frequently the hostile radar changed frequencies, so long as it remained within the same preset band, the Martel would track it.
Inadvertent mechanical jamming is fairly common because it is indiscriminate and will affect any nearby radars, hostile or not.
Instantly the four jets broke hard right, again diving for the deck to shake off any hostile radars as they exited the strike area and vanished to the north.
The idea was for the bomber to monitor hostile radar, the better to allow its crew to avoid detection and deliver its bombs.
To stay out of reach of hostile radar, many of the A-10's missions were flown at nearly ground level.