How does flying low keep you off the radar?
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If you were trying to creep up on someone in open ground who was looking out for you, one of the things you’d do would be to flatten yourself to the ground and crawl towards them using tufts of grass and bushes etc for cover to block their line of sight.
It’s the same with radar: the ground is covered with ‘clutter’: hills, buildings, towers, trees etc, and if you can keep your aircraft down close to them, you can either hide in their radio shadows (radar doesn’t go through hills) or at least be confused with the background of other stuff and harder to spot as a result.
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