Faravahar
BANNED
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2016
- Messages
- 290
- Reaction score
- -6
- Country
- Location
Software cannot defy the laws of physics. The Chinese on this forum tried. Resorting to mysterious software is a cheap cop-out.
Because you did not know of these details. If you did, you would not have posted that image in post 146. You would have been true to the technical reality that such a small array is tactically useless due to its large beamwidth.
Bandwidth ? It is BEAMWIDTH. Like this...
According to the laws of physics, there is an INVERSE relationship between array and operating freq for any desired beamwidth. I cannot dumb it down further than that.
Then they are good for weather. Not against an aircraft carrier fleet and/or bombers.
Then you are vulnerable to weather and/or spoofing. You will end up chasing ghosts.
In the US, we have a group calls 'ham radio' operators.
http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio
They use various freqs in the OTH bands to communicate with people all over the world. So yes, the US military knows about how to freq agility in radar operations.
It is not a "cheap cop out", development on software have greatly made radars systems in general much more efficient. I am not going to comment to what extent software can help, simply because I don't have an insight into the systems operated. There was a paper written on this "ghost" phenomenon you referred to and how to reduce its likelihood, I'll see if I can find it.
OTH radars are not perfect, but when you have different OTH radars, working together with other radars such as long range AESA etc then this will provide a very robust system. If one was foolish to simply rely on one radar system, then the influences of the shortcoming of that radar would be much more significant.
Anyway this conversation has gone quite off track. We can talk for years about theoretical war scenarios, but only if such things have to been applied in practise (let's hope not) then we'll know for sure.