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4.9: The Mobile Radar/Jammer | [Back to the WarGuide]
The radar vehicles, or kbots, have roughly the same radar coverage as a level one radar tower. They allow you to "see" what your ground attack force may be approaching, before it is in actual visual range. Thus you can attack the blip on the radar mini-map, or avoid it, or pause to let your forces group up and assault the target(s) all together. A tactic I have seen that is of questionable usefulness is to pair up a jammer unit with a radar unit (sometimes called a "blocker") and send them out towards the enemy base to guide air strikes and nuclear attacks. Using the peepers or finks is cheaper and faster, even if you lose the recon unit. As with many of the TA units, the usefulness of mobile ground radar units is confined to special situations, like, for instance, if your aircraft production facilities have just been destroyed. In contrast, the mobile radar jamming units are an important part of almost any strategy.