US military reveals 'super radar' that can give pilots perfect vision through clouds and smoke

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[Sacajaweau]

Doesn’t belong in the news....

[Jonty30]

It’s news to me.

[Vendome]

That’s bad azz.

Seeing through clouds enables ops anytime, anywhere....

[BuffaloJack]

Never disclose what you have.
Don’t they teach Sun Tzu in the military colleges any more?

[JohnG45]

Doesn’t belong in the news... .

Exactly!

Why announce it?

[SeeSharp]

Don’t they teach Sun Tzu in the military colleges any more?

Yes, but military contractors wanting to sell their stuff to Congress don't study military science. They study political science.

[mad_as_he$$]

Already common knowledge in the industry. I am surprised about the claims they are making. Powering the unit will require a large generator - for now.

[marktwain]

It is not operational.

It probably has limitations we are not told about.

If the other side believes they can be seen through clouds, all the time, it complicates their life considerably.

[TalBlack]

Geez, I wonder if they’ll be wheeling out the Blackbird again with this radar?

[JohnG45]

If the other side believes they can be seen through clouds, all the time, it complicates their life considerably.

If the other side doesn't know it can be seen through the clouds they will continue to expose their activities on cloudy days. And we would be watching.

Now they know they can be seen and will innovate new ways to avoid detection.

Revealing this is not a plus.

[P.O.E.]

Code named Rudolph?

[JudgemAll]

Was already done with Lantirn.

Pretty much an EM glow for antiradiation missiles too

[Bikkuri]

Why would they let this information out?

[60Gunner]

Don’t they teach Sun Tzu in the military colleges any more?

No; they have replaced Sun Tzu with Saul Alinski and Karl Marx.

[ptsal]

Walbot for the military

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3455990/The-phone-X-RAY-VISION-149-Walabot-sensor-lets-people-peer-walls-objects-hiding-ground.html

[McGruff]

Who’s blabbering all this stuff out?

[marktwain]

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) is an under appreciated national treasure.

The United States and the world have benefited from DARPA initiatives 100 times over the minimal expense of DARPA, simply form GPS and the Internet, both of which DARPA was instrumental in developing.

There seems to be something magical about the interaction of an agency that promotes paradigm busting research, which is then exploited in a capitalist environment.

DARPA also had a hand in the research that led to Windows, Google maps, and Unix.

DARPA bump-started the research leading to autonomous vehicles.

[Redleg Duke]

Agree. The public doesn’t have the right to know everything.

Like when Leaky from Vermont announced that we were tracking Alqueda by their cell phones.

[C210N]

Extremely High Frequency (EHF)...

Next up would be LHF (Ludicrously High Frequency). It allows pilot to see thru everything! When viewing, you see thru clouds, the ground underneath, and the earth under that - you see space and the stars beyond.