Target detection, identification and tracking against the natural interferences is a serious technical task.
I know that already. I was in that 'business' for nearly 19 yrs combined military and civilian experience.
It is more complicated in circumstances of countermeasures: false targets, imitation jamming. Mistakes are possible even in a very plain circumstances. For example Aegis system was involved in a disaster in which USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 resulting in 290 civilian deaths.
All the more reasons people should pause before they make declarations about something they know nothing or little of. I see too many of that here.
LO/VLO target makes the task more difficult. For example when the distance between homing head and LO/VLO target is reducing, reflected signal undergoes changes, which may lead to instability or failure of an air-to-air missile control circuits.
I know that. One of those changes is the Doppler component, of which post 361 I used to illustrate how this radar component could be exploited to target an F-117 class body.
A necessary condition for successful fight against LO/VLO targers is knowledge and consideration of the characteristics of the targets in all frequency regions for the near and far regions, for any angle, for combined and diversity reception.
You are entering a loaded area.
What kind of characteristics are you talking about?
We know that physical structures have unique radar signatures (RCS), whether it is a human being, the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids of Giza, an automobile, or a jet fighter. The more complex the structure, the more unique that signature. However, in every complex structure, there are always commonality of component structures and we can break them down as well, all the way down to simple forms/shapes such as the plate, the sphere, the cube, the cylinder, and so on.
For example...A missile is composed of these major shapes: cylinder (body), the (nose) cone, and the plate (fins). The missile's design is universal, just like an arrow made by a Chinese warrior against one made by a Masai warrior on the other of the world.
So to what degree of radar signatures/characteristics of as a complex body as a jet fighter are you talking about?
Current methods of physical modeling can provide accurate reflection characteristics (with an error of less than 2-3 dB)
for any specified aircraft. In Russia such metods are implemented in a Standard Radar Measurement System (Эталонный радиолокационный измерительный комплекс
.
The results are used in weapons control systems. In PAK-FA (ПАК-ФА
"АК" stands for Aviation Complex (Авиационный Комплекс
. It implies possibility of autonomous missions for single or couple aircrafts or using them as a part of complex combat system. For all purposes each aircraft will have 4 radars (forward, 2 side and backward) including L-band radar.
Aaahh...So are you implying that Russia have a library of unique complex radar signatures of every known aircraft in the world based solely upon modeling and not real measurements?
yea-yeh.
You can just drop bombs on civilians. Against a normal country your chances of not more than cockroach against the bear.
The Russian bear shat on himself when he saw what happened in Desert Storm.