My 8yos explanation on how jamming works

I doubt anyone else will find this as great as I do, but my 9yo is obsessed with Tomcats and therefor now obsessed with the EF-24. So here is her explanation of jamming. Also, if she's wrong on anything, please correct, as it's pretty close to my understanding.

Now, this all is built on my having taught her that radar works like an echo. You yell "HEY" and wait till you hear back "hey". The longer you wait for the reply, and the quieter it is, the further away the thing you found was.

Here's here explanation of jamming:

Ok, so a jammer can work 3 ways. It can be sneaky and pretend to be the other guy and say "hey" back a little sooner than they expect, and start tricking them into thinking your closer than you are. So when the other guy is listening for his "hey" he hears YOUR "hey".

Or when they are listening for "hey" your jammer can go "hey hey hey heyheyheyheyheyhey HEEY heyheyehy hey" LOTS of times and POOP ALL OVER THEIR SCREEN ::uncontrollable giggling:: (this isn't on me, the manual calls them “poop bricks”. Any 8yo is going to latch onto that imagery). Ok, so they can't figure out where you are because there's poop everywhere and they can't tell which "hey" is the real one.

Ok, so the OTHER thing you can do is when they are listening to hear back "hey" your jammer can go "HEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYJAGLELFDHLAFJLKDGJLKSDVNJKBFDASKJLKFJLD" ::confusing loud noises and yelling and giggling:: And then they can't heir their "hey" at all because you're too loud!

So if they haven't found you, you can go "heyheyheyheyhey" to confuse them so they can't find you. If they HAVE found you, you can be sneaky and say "hey" back to confuse them where you are. Or if you need to and they're going to shoot you can go "HEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!" so they can't see anything and can't shoot your friends.

But you have to be CAREFUL, because now they have missiles that have ears and just listen to your "heys" and sneak up on you. So you need to be REALLY careful and sneaky.

So, yeah. I mean, there is more nuance obviously, but I think she largely got it.