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How does beyod the horizon radar really works??. One has to bounce radar waves off something to get a profile. Do these get bounced off Ionosphere or do you use the existing geo-fixed position satellites. I would have thought that unless you have AWACS where you can see a long way off, any land position radar station would be limited by the height of its position. Have they found a way to literally bend radar waves and enable one to see over the horizon??
How else one see a target 120 KM aways unless you are flying at 30,000 feet. In that case there will other problems such as ground clutter ( main draw back of Look-Down/Shoot-Down radars). It will take an extremely high resolution radar to differentiate between a 'Bogey' and a non obtrusive flying object such as private jet 120 KM away. Surely there must be many false alarms. I have heard a lot about AESA radar, what is surprising that they can fix the same in the nose cone of a fighter jet??
This may be a stupid question but I would like to understand it.
How else one see a target 120 KM aways unless you are flying at 30,000 feet. In that case there will other problems such as ground clutter ( main draw back of Look-Down/Shoot-Down radars). It will take an extremely high resolution radar to differentiate between a 'Bogey' and a non obtrusive flying object such as private jet 120 KM away. Surely there must be many false alarms. I have heard a lot about AESA radar, what is surprising that they can fix the same in the nose cone of a fighter jet??
This may be a stupid question but I would like to understand it.