Optical decoys arent needed then

Radio jammers would be enough to stop the defense system from firing off and stopping the missle? How strong would those have to be?

I'll make it simple radar is basically this

Radar knows your distance by counting the time needed for the reflected wave to come back

That's simple enough to understand.

Yes but if you wanna get complex the radar has 3 stages

Search

track

engage

Search radar uses low frequency waves that travel longer distances

They provide a general idea of the target distance but they can pin point the size or the exact distance or speed of the target due to the wave length

Track mode engages and radar wave frequency gets elevated to what is called X band or KU band for ultra high frequency

the accuracy of data is a lot better now and you can get a radar imagery of the target but your wave doesnt travel that far since its much smaller so you cant do that mode until the target reaches a certain area

Engage mode gets engage after receiving the data about the threat

so you do a trick called 'painting the target'

its focusing the radar waves on the target so you send a missile that follows those waves like a dog following a stick

So you have to sacrifice distance for shape, as in what exactly the object detected is? Depending on the frequency.

I hope i made clear

its how stuff works if you want to guide something towards the target

you need more waves contacting with the target

with less wave length

and more updated real time info

S band waves (low frequency) arent good at that since they're large as i said wave length is damn big

Thats why in military radars you see that theres a search range and a tracking range

I hope i didnt make it long because its more than that too

anyway

The Radio decoys are Radio waves emitters that spam radio waves of multiple frequencies

the incoming missile relies on radio waves from its own seeker or the ground fire control radar

but when you spam it with what is called 'aggressive' waves the missile cant say where the hell are you since it receives waves and cant time exactly when the correct wave is received

The seeker is like what the f*ck is going on and it can no longer keep a lock on your missile

How would you go about tracking down these jammers? Is there any easy way to finding them?

Yup so basically hmmm

there are two types of radars right

Theres whats called Pulse radar and Active Electronically scanned radar

Old pulse based radars are the one you saw in movies and mostly everywhere in the civile sector

they turn

mechanically

AESA adar on the other hands have multiple transmitters if you wanna call them 'mini radars' that allow the thing to scan using their different placements without having to turn the radar antenna

The advantage you get is A you can change frequencies a lot easier now