Mr. havaarla, are you referring to me? I was under the impression MiG-31 regiments had long-established ‘radar sweeps’ (since Soviet times), using the APD-518 data-link and a 200km gap. It says here “automatic coms to ground control” also:
Anyways, has anyone seen Oooshiny or mig-31bm? They’ve got some explaining to do.
So given the 3 decent sources presented showing that RCS increase is no-where near 100x going from 10Ghz down to 1Ghz being pushed by a few who were confused by some maths…
Nothing confusing about a B-2 plot of 100m^2 @ 1GHz, buddy (from your post btw):
‘Oh-oh-spaghettios’!!…and still at least 10x more reflective from the more discrete aspects!
Concurring quite well with the 18-20dBsm increase for 1GHz stated by industry academics & professionals (at least in the worst offending regions).
Also kinda runs riot with your attempts to portray a 10GHz plot that closely matches a 1 GHz plot for a (non-stealth) MiG-29 as directly extrapolating for the notional stealth bomber from your linked undergraduate ‘study’.
Another person said that no aircraft, whether legacy or stealth will ever fly in a wide formation. All engagements are tight format vs tight formation, no exceptions…
Not even the MiG-31? (I mean the plane, not the poster here who can’t tell the difference between 18 and 40dBsm).
You clearly have serious problem in understanding and not answering my question at all.
1) Formulate system requirements for both passive and active (with incoherent illumination) radiometry for candidate high-performance mmW imaging systems based on thinned arrays for application to:…
Active millimeter wave imaging systems first illuminate the objects and subsequently detect the reflected millimeter waves. Many active imaging systems are essentially radar based. The millimeter wave and THz imaging research areas at the DMRC include:…
I don’t see correlation between resolution and counter stealth…
Growing in potential as a counterstealth technology is millimeter wave (MMW) imaging, which uses the radiometric signature naturally emitted by all objects. MMW penetrates clouds and low visibility. The waveform can also be transmitted by radar, which then receives and processes the return echo…
The Russian defense industry has developed MMW antiair missile seekers, and other countries are following suit…
If the system L-150-16M RWR/ELINT could be able to get the bearing and coordinates from the target ( fighter) , then the Su 25SM3 should be capable to fire its R 77 missiles with ARH( Active Radar Homing), and in this case even such Su 25SM3 without air-mode radar could be able to fire this R 77 against the target.
While the target has been emitting signals that would be detected by this system L-150-16M RWR/ELINT, the target will be track by the launch aircraft , with the condition that aircraft would be is equipped with a X band datalink, then it will be capable to update the coordinates for the R 77 missile with ARH..
Just one curiosity AFAIK about the R 77 and R 37 missiles that both had been designed with digital active radar seeker in the X band, while the precursor from all ARH missiles as the former AIM 54A Phoenix and the all active service AIM 120 were operating in the Ka band.
Almost all experts in the West about active radar seekers has been claimed that Ka band will increase the precision or Pk from BVR missiles, once if it would be compared to X band that had been equipped the SARH( Semi Active Radar Homing) missiles.
Another advantage from Ka band in BVR missiles will increase the complexity from ECM devices in the adversary aircrafts, once the target should be capable to jamming both the radar in the X band from the launch aircraft, as well as the BVR missiles with Ka band seekers…
That would be a ground-breaking capability that not even the mighty AN/ALR-94, SPECTRA etc posses – and hence I think it highly unlikely for the L-150-16M. The L-150-35 on the Su-35S is a more complex and sophisticated piece of kit analogous to the AN/ALR-94, and even it uses Irbis in interferometer LPI mode to target active radar guided missiles.
The next generation AAMs will switch to Ka-band (MMW radar seekers) affording very high resolution for anti-stealth:
Millimeter wave (MMW) radar is booming in application to target seeker onboard the air-to-air missile (AAM), which has the capability to obtain all-weather radar images for auto target recognition (ATR) and intelligent active homing guidance…
AGAT’s Ka-band MMW seeker (centre):
…Again I’m not being racist like SOME are trying to paint me. Im just stating the facts…
No amount of fancy math, and charts trying to judge RCS matter if the engine are not up to par.
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…i.e. if you’re still around, drop in & say 您好.
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