How do aircraft/fighter jets know that they are being locked on by an anti aircraft system or by another fighter jet?

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How do aircraft/fighter jets know that they are being locked on by an anti aircraft system or by another fighter jet?

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You’re playing flashlight tag. The person who’s it has two flashlights, blue and white. They can sweep the blue light around to look for people, but they have to hold the white light on a person to tag them.

The lights are radar: blue is search/scan radar, white it targeting/painting radar. The plane has sensors that can detect the “lights”, so when it sees the white light being held on it, it knows someone is trying to tag it (with a missile).

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