Laser Mimics EXTREMELY Sensitive

[TSi+WRX]

^ Ah, but notice happya$$'s stipulations, on what he saw of the performance.

It's sensitive, no doubt.

And it does well in "head-on" scenarios.

But he was able to elicit the PTs by just panning to weak-points, further away from the heads.

So again, we've got the same considerations that make for "a good jammer" -->

(1)

It's gotta detect well. As we've seen of IRCMUSA's original and then-groundbreaking IR-videos, without being able to "see" the threat, the jammer simply can't respond properly.

Clearly, this is not a problem for the Mimic - nor, say, the ZR4, as demonstrated by Cbr and ELVATO's IR-video.

(2)

It's gotta perform well, not just on-axis, when the LIDAR beam is pointed directly at it, but also when even the most outer edges of the vehicle's profile - and hardpoints - are being probed.

(3)

It's gotta have the proper algorithm to handle the threats that it's going to face.


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Unless a jammer fits all of these criteria, it's gonna be subject to failure.

Does this mean that the jammer can't perform under real-world circumstances?

No, not necessarily.

I think that, in a way, "good enough," for many, is just that.

However, I do think that any of these risk factors play a HUGE part in the problems that can arise when the encounter scenario becomes less-than-favorable.

[MEM-TEK]

No I am being dead serious for once. I know that it is hard to believe especially when one sees how cheaply built these things are

I believe you since you have tried just about every jammer on the market. Interestingly, a side test was quickly requested by Blinder at SML this year, just to see if the Blinders could detect laser over a slight hill. I believe we were at the 2500 foot cone and only had to drive forward by two hundred feet to crest the very slight hill. Blinder requested a continuous laser shot as he crested the hill. He got a solid alert as soon as his heads began to clear the hill and had line-of-sight. So I figured, what the hell, and requested to try the same thing with the ZR4. I had the exact same results with the ZR4.

The only thing I can say is that the better laser jammers obviously are very sensitive to laser -- far more sensitive than the average radar detector's single laser module even when laser is pointing straight at the radar detector.