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Basic radars present the target information on a display and displayed targets are referred to as blips. Based on the relative size of the blips on the display, a radar operator could determine large targets from small targets. When a Blip Enhance technique is used, small targets returns are augmented to look like large targets. One early maritime application of this technique was used with an Aircraft Carrier and the escort ships. Because the Aircraft Carrier physically dwarfed the other vessels its radar return was much larger making it relatively easy for a radar operator to pick it out as a target. Escort ships were fitted with blip enhance transmitters that received and amplified the radar signal so that all the escort ship looked like an Aircraft Carrier sized target. When all the escort ships activated their blip enhance transmitters, all the ships blips grew on the radar display masking the true Aircraft Carrier blip, and confusing any attempt to target the Aircraft Carrier for a missile attack. |
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