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We should purchase that radar for our southern border.


2 posted on 03/19/2012 10:10:59 PM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238
We should purchase that radar for our southern border.

Seeing people cross the border illegally is one thing, actually doing something about it, is another.

5 posted on 03/19/2012 10:25:58 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: U-238
We should purchase that radar for our southern border.

This would only work where you have a large, flat area free of vegetation to surveil. Hills mask targets and wind stirred vegetation blinds you to slow moving targets Airports use surface detection radar that can detect a man on a runway four miles away (and clearly detect the wake of a 16 foot boat in the Mystic River). Surface detection radar are just modified marine navigation radar, spinning at 60 RPM. Airport surveillance radar do not use Doppler.

The Israeli radar seems to be a phased array that uses Doppler to distinguish slow moving targets from ground clutter. What do they do in the rain? Basically, you are inviting intruders to come in on rainy days. The standard deviation of the velocity of rain clutter is about 2-4 meters per second, which would completely mask a person walking.

14 posted on 03/20/2012 4:41:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Jihad" is Arabic for "Helter-Skelter", "bin Laden" is Arabic for "Manson".)
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