Posted on 07/11/2016 10:51:10 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
How long until war with Russia?
The fact is that no ‘stealth plane’ is immune to detection from all wavelengths. The problem becomes one of the resolution of detection. With enough locators with the right areas of coverage and coordination can locate platforms that are supposed to be stealthy.
These low frequency arrays have been around for a long time. Often used for OTH and the odd use. The fact is that stealth planes are optimized for expected RF locator sources. That usually means from head-on incursion angles. Detection from underneath, or overhead (think satellites my friends) and the game gets trickier.
The truth is that stealth is for use against non sophisticated targets. They are not invulnerable from passive systems using ubiquitous sources, nor are they completely radar invisible. To believe ‘stealth’ is the panacea is foolish.
perfect. they’re spending money that they don’t have. it’s sort of what defensive spending is all about; our economic engine can drive our defense industry, while theirs cannot.
that’s what caused their first collapse. it’s likely to cause a second one.
One legend in the EWO community was that one of ours overflew one of theirs and blanked both out to ATC thereby revealing it's presence.
Get back to me on Nov. 9th.
Detection has nothing to do with tracking. This RADAR type is Early Warning (EW) and is meant to hand off to a Target Tracker (TT) by providing range, bearing and altitude.
Can’t get enough data for target resolution?
Well, if ya got a gazillion sites and missiles...
5.56mm
Don’t forget that the lower the return signal from the stealthy target, the higher gain required by the receiver to reliably detect a signal. This also makes such radar more susceptible to jamming, and the jamming signal doesn’t need to be as powerful, making jamming pods smaller.
It would also be fairly easy to deploy decoys that could passively or actively emulate a larger target in the lower frequencies, further complicating any attempted intercept.
You start jamming and they you absolutely tell them something is up. I’m just telling you that stealth isn’t the cure all. I know better.
“First Secretary, the infrared guidance system is not the most accurate means of aiming. It may be necessary for a Soviet aircraft to act as a target. Will you give that order?”
(Pause)...”Of course.”
“Very well, First Secretary, then the American is bound to fly into our trap.”
Detecting “something” in the air with a high-power radar is one thing; locating it with the precision necessary to destroy it is something else entirely.
Are you aware that cellular system signals can be used to form a passive location system?
Hurray! Then we can impose a progressive, leftist, George Soros-sponsored Goldman Sachs President, and force them to be all-in on the gay-marriage and Muslim immigration thing which we tried before. Can we bring Pussy Riot out of retirement? In fact, no country will fold faster with a few million mid-east Muslims, given its own Muslim population.
No more worries about Russia frustrating Saudi plans in the Mid-East either or being a counter-weight to EU/Brussels plans for Europe. Once that happens, Russia will be broken up and will never bother us again.
All one needs is a general location in which to focus assets with better resolution, longer signal integration times and the like. Add multi-banded capability to bear the same resources and you aren’t stealthy any more.
My wife gave me a cellphone years ago, also known as a male tracking device.
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yeah, that’s exactly what I said. hysteria much?
“all you need to know is where it is, and then you will be able to find out where it is!”
just thinking about logical consequences...
That is true with all IADS, but with a resolution that can only get you within 10,000 meters you are asking a lot of most Target Track platforms that only have a 1 degree beam width. 10km is a lot of damn sky to search. Plus you will have to have multiple systems up radiating. Those systems have now told the enemy where they are.
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