A
radar jamming
signal generated by equipment carried by a target aircraft, is launched onto the leading end of a towed single wire
transmission line so as to travel the length of the line as a nonradiating
surface wave. A drogue radiator is attached to the trailing end of the line for radiating the jamming
signal transversely of the towed line so as to be received by and cause jamming of tracking and / or
fire control radar. The length of the single wire
transmission line is selected so that the trailing radiator causes the jamming
signal to emanate from a position sufficiently behind the aircraft so as to be outside the destructive
radius of weapon fire directed at the apparent source of the jamming signal by
fire control radar. A ventriloqual-like deception of the radar is thus achieved. A wave launcher couples the jamming signal to the leading end of the
transmission line and for this purpose includes an electrically conducted horn-shaped structure, a tunable coaxial feed end at the constricted end of the
horn structure, an inner transition conductor connecting the inner conductor of the coaxial feed to a leading end of the single wire transmission line, and a plurality of annular
dielectric lenses and
dielectric guides cooperatively shaped and fitted to the
horn structure in a manner that effectively matches the bounded
electromagnetic transmission wave characteristics of the coaxial feed cable with the
surface wave transmission characteristics of the single wire transmission line. Coacting with the ventriloqual-like
radiation of the jamming signal from the trailing end of the transmission line is an anti-integration network that hides the return radar signal reflected off the target aircraft in a signal energy “hole” created for such purpose in a secondary low level
noise signal transmitted directly from the aircraft.