But normal output of air and ground radar are much higher than 1 W, right?

Then they are not made to be LPI. Clearly ESM will have advantage.

Or their LPI design feature does not involve such low power. Remember that RHAWS or ESM gear may not always have radar in view (scan to scan problem) Or presented with low sidelobe that the only one who detect it is the one getting painted.

and except for bombers, i would say fighter RCS are much lower than 100 m2

Can you be always sure that the target will always be presenting its lowest RCS side to radar ? Plus Pilot MK2 is a surface scan radar. It is designed for surface scan mission. The intended target is ships and boat. They will definitely have 100 sqm RCS.

Could it be LPI?
Do you you think the race between LPI radar and ESM has been won decisively by ESM system?

No real consensus as there isnt even official metric being adopted as a measure of merit of being LPI.

What are some LPI techniques ? are they all easily counter?

Many, ranged from managing and trading between power vs dwell time. Low sidelobes, or make the signal unrecognizable (say random PRF etc)

Countering these techniques are possible but it is hard to tell which is “easier” to counter than the other.

@mig31bm

Well we dont know what type of F-15E and C’s being discussed. Plus im kinda late in news, Im curious on how many C and E’s received the new APG-63V3/82’s.

Aperture wise it’s does look bigger, perhaps even better cooling especially the APG-82 Bird which receive cooling upgrades, might allow bit more powerful TRM to be used. Overall however it is kinda hard to judge which parameter is better from the qualitative presentation.

just put it on google drive or some other filehosting service.

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Hate to be a bother but is there a possibility to make an excel sheet that tells you what RCS size there is in close or farther ranges? Example there is a 1m2 target at 400kms however if I lower that target to .0001m2 what range would it be or lets say I track a .01m2 target at 400kms away than what distance will I see a .0001m2 target at? Is this feasible to do? And if so do you have plans to make such a project and if not can you dumb down the equation regarding this task? Thanks if you do or if you know any other user that can do this.

It’s very hard to understand what you mean but i think i know. For attempt to obtain value of RCS based on detection range, one can simply run the 4th root rules in reverse for that.

Target RCS= (Reference RCS/Reference Detection range^4)*Target Detection Range ^4

Following is the example :

We have a radar with following capability :
Detection range for 3 sqm target : 250 km

A contact is detected at 50 km, what is the RCS of the target ?

Then we run it :

Target RCS= (3/250^4)*50^4
Target RCS= 0.0048 sqm.