Been in the news a lot lately. I’ve always assumed it just overloads an area with some sort of signal, but I know nothing about this kind of stuff so it’s a wild speculation.
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**ELI5**
Radar is like you yelling into a cave and listening for the echo. Imagine doing it. You yell “Echo! Echo!” And you listen for the echo.
And if you’re clever, you realize that the time it takes for you to hear the echo, is related to how deep the cave goes. A longer echo means that the sound traveled further before bouncing back to you.
So you become really good at yelling “Echo” and figuring out just how far the sound went before bouncing.
That’s an ELI5 explanation of how radar works. It sends out signals, and it waits for the echo, and from the echo, it can tell where the bounce came from, how far it is, etc.
So you’re getting really good at this! So you go into a big warehouse, and you want to try out your new ability. You yell “Echo!” and you wait for the echo to come back, so you can guess how big the warehouse is.
But it’s noisy in the warehouse. Too noisy. It’s so noisy that you can’t hear your own echo!
And your buddy who plays pranks on you, he’s next to you playing music on his phone, loudly, and that also makes it difficult for you to hear your echo. If he’d stop playing that loud sound, you might have a chance to hear your own echo.
So “radar jamming” is like that. An adversary emits some kind of signal that makes the radar equipment unable to hear its own echo.
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