ess (phil hunt) wrote:

- so you're limited
to fighting wars after dark on cloudless nights with no flares in the
sky. LORAN is a radio broadcast and therefore not survivable against a
US-style opponent.

If you have lots of transmitters, many of which are dummy
transmitters, and many of which are only turned on for a short time,
using frequency hopping, it's rather harder to destroy the network.

No, it's *easy* to destroy the network. Just knock down every antenna
in the nation over 100' tall. *poof* No more LORAN network.

D.
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