What do you expect them to do? Let you shoot them down?
Besides, isn’t it an act of war when you lock your radar onto a target?
got it in 2.
Not an act of war.
We used to fly our F-15E over the states at night and on occasion, we would use our radar to track ground targets about 150 miles away (no lock), and when we would see a blip zipping along, passing all the other traffic, we would lock it up and step up to HPRF and that much energy would kick-off the guys radar detector and it was funny to watch some guy zipping along, get zapped and hit the breaks and go from 120mph down to 60mph in seconds.
Now, there were times I would scroll the radar to max elevation and go to auto-lock, trying to catch a low orbit satellite but sometimes I would lock something that was not flying in a straight line like a satellite, and was maneuvering wildly.
It’s not an act of war to jam a radar.. it’s done all the time between the superpowers as is locking onto targets and tracking them as is flying into and out of protected airspace just to have the “enemy” radar’s light up and then you know where they are.
It’s all a game until someone fires...
>>Besides, isn’t it an act of war when you lock your radar onto a target?
Tell that to the courts the next time you get a speeding ticket