I understand how you’d detect lasing but not radar lock, especially at the distances and intensities involved (like I’m familiar with how an NMR machine works but I cannot correlate it with RWR).
MAWS also make sense – you’re scanning with radar or laser or IR and use doppler effects to notice something is moving towards you.
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A RWR detects how often you’re being exposed to radar useful for targeting (mostly x-band).
If you are being ‘lit up’ with the radar beam once every 3 seconds, you’re likely in the area of a search radar. You might be tracked, but they are sweeping the radar beam over a large area of the sky to check a big area.
If you are being ‘lit up’ 10 times a second, someone is directing a beam narrowly at your area and is defiantly seeing you, and measuring your position and speed with high accuracy, something they’d do if they wanted to hit you with a weapon.
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