And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Just really cool. Too bad they're already being decommissioned.
F-22 was able to deflect radars of very specific wavelengths away from the emitter. a guy could defeat this on any similar aircraft with a bistatic radar-an emitter and a receiver not colocated in the same spot. The E-3 radar can defeat this by having two seperate aircraft some distance apart with their electronics systems connected by a tactical data link system and encrypting each radar pulse they send out. triangulation in real time and you have your target. Link 16 can do the same. todays electronic battlefield is so complex one never knows who is seeing who and... what was that bang...
In the late '80s or '90s in the Northwest (Washington) I was in an area adjacent to the snake river and one of these planes passed over me from behind and then flew down into the snake river valley flying south. It had been flying nape of the earth, I suspect. Never heard it coming & its passing was quite a shock even though the noise was not loud as it passed. BTW, I was shocked to see how large it was as I expected a smaller craft. As it passed over it was not over a hundred feet above me, if that.
If they are being decommissioned, what is taking its place?
ReplyDeleteF-35
DeleteI think they have been retired since 2008.
ReplyDeleteThey were briefly reactivated.
Delete"Cool" is not a mission requirement.
ReplyDeleteRemember, when they declassify something like this, it means they have something better....
ReplyDeleteThey served their intended purpose
ReplyDeleteThey served their intended purpose
ReplyDeleteF-22 was able to deflect radars of very specific wavelengths away from the emitter. a guy could defeat this on any similar aircraft with a bistatic radar-an emitter and a receiver not colocated in the same spot. The E-3 radar can defeat this by having two seperate aircraft some distance apart with their electronics systems connected by a tactical data link system and encrypting each radar pulse they send out. triangulation in real time and you have your target. Link 16 can do the same. todays electronic battlefield is so complex one never knows who is seeing who and... what was that bang...
DeleteIn the late '80s or '90s in the Northwest (Washington) I was in an area adjacent to the snake river and one of these planes passed over me from behind and then flew down into the snake river valley flying south. It had been flying nape of the earth, I suspect. Never heard it coming & its passing was quite a shock even though the noise was not loud as it passed. BTW, I was shocked to see how large it was as I expected a smaller craft. As it passed over it was not over a hundred feet above me, if that.
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