Radar enhances AA accuracy?

[RadioFreeSteve]

Greetings mutants! I was talkin' to this guy I know who just happens to enjoy nuking cities (don't we all?!) when the topic of radar installations came up. In openly potificating on why my cool bunkers kept getting nuked so easily, even with heavy AA coverage, he speculated that radar sites might possibly add to one's AA ability. And maybe also figher accuracy? Of course, my shithouse coastal radar sites get knocked out quicker than Airwolf buzzin' by an F-14 Tomcat, so I'm wonderin' if there's any weight to this theory.

[VANGUARD]

I don't think there's any weight to it tbh, but it would make a nice addition.

[xander]

Greetings mutants! I was talkin' to this guy I know who just happens to enjoy nuking cities (don't we all?!) when the topic of radar installations came up. In openly potificating on why my cool bunkers kept getting nuked so easily, even with heavy AA coverage, he speculated that radar sites might possibly add to one's AA ability. And maybe also figher accuracy? Of course, my shithouse coastal radar sites get knocked out quicker than Airwolf buzzin' by an F-14 Tomcat, so I'm wonderin' if there's any weight to this theory.

The RADAR increases the visual range of the silos. If they can see farther, they can fire farther. Thus, RADAR can, to some extent, improve the effectiveness of AA fire. It doesn't seem to make anything more accurate, but it does allow you draw a bead on enemy fighters/missles/bombers earlier.

xander

[notforsale]

tell you what, having to scramble fighters to help compensate for lost radar installations is annoying. Radar is a prime target as they are easy to destroy (1 nuke for the nubs) & when they are gone the silos on detection range is much reduced from its effective firing range. Which sucks BTW.

[wwarnick]

What AA can't see, it can't shoot. When it can see farther, it can start firing at a warhead earlier, and can therefore hit it more times before impact. Hopefully, the radar would give it enough time to destroy the warhead. Because of this, radar dishes are often targeted first because they only take one hit.

[Soldant]

Exactly - Radar are incredibly important targets for two major reasons:

1) They take only one nuke to be destroyed.
2) People leave them in undefended/poorly defended places.

If you can cripple a person's radar sites, and follow it up swiftly with an attack from many of their silos, you effectively leave them defenseless, and you can put them in an even worse position by launching nukes at their silos using subs or aircraft or something. By doing that, they're forced into keeping their silos in defensive mode, but they're likely to get overwhelmed due to the fact they're got little radar coverage and few silos left.