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To: ETCM

Stealth is overrated in aircraft and it is many times over overrated in ships. 1/50 of Burke is big enough to detect at any sufficient range with modern radar technology. Not to mention radar is not a single way to track assets of such sort.


9 posted on 01/16/2020 12:39:28 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

It’s enough (in both aircraft and ships) to massively reduce the ability of fire and forget weapons to get a good enough track and lock on to the vehicles. *Strategic* radar stealth, i.e., ‘no radar can see me at significant range at all and I can sneak past’ hasn’t been a viable technology since the early 2000s. A group of Australian scientists figured out that a virtual large array of radars that are datalinked to each other *can* see or infer the location of any stealthed craft - well enough to tell one is operating in the area and to vector air assets to the general vicinity of the craft, not enough for a missile lock or gun direction with current technology. Which is why the Russians and Chinese sell their antiaircraft systems with datalink capability now.


14 posted on 01/16/2020 2:14:33 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: NorseViking
I don't believe the primary purpose behind reducing a ship's RCS is to avoid detection. With sonar, IR, real-time satellite feeds, good old Mark-I eyeball... They are fairly difficult to hide effectively or for very long.

I believe the real driver behind making ships appear smaller/dimmer to RF sensors is to increase the effectiveness of RF defensive systems. Things designed to mask a vessel from an incoming seeker, or seduce one away, etc.

20 posted on 01/16/2020 4:53:04 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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