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To: Rokke
You are ascribing fantastic properties to the SAM-6 radar. The missile has a range of over 40 miles. There is no technology that would radar illuminate a plane in a narrow beam like a searchlight over that great a distance. The ground radar is quite normal, and covers a large segment of the sky.
55 posted on 02/18/2004 9:39:35 PM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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To: eno_
"The missile has a range of over 40 miles."

No. It doesn't.

"There is no technology that would radar illuminate a plane in a narrow beam like a searchlight over that great a distance."

Yes, there is. The Navy's Aegis system, the Army's Patriot system, and the Russian SA-10 are all easily capable of doing that.

58 posted on 02/18/2004 10:01:03 PM PST by Rokke
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