As I said in another comment, I didn’t recognize it from photos but I’ve read of the VERA system. It’s actually specifically not a radar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERA_passive_sensor
Ahhh right, I didn’t recognize it from a photo but I’ve read of it.
It’s annoying that so many sources are calling VERA-NG a “radar” when it’s specifically not a radar: it’s a fully passive system, it only receives and doesn’t emit. Hell, even the Wiki article is titled VERA passive sensor
Radar can totally be passive, and if you’re flying above enemy territory, it’s a really good idea to use passive radar and not active radar (the latter of which is used for some guided missile platforms).
In fact, active radar means everyone with passive radar knows where (and probably, what) you are.
One of the primary sensors on F16 (simulators in the early 1990s) was a passive radar — called that — that detected and pointed at those things trying to ping my plane.
Since it detected transmissions outside effective range, it meant I tracked them sooner than they tracked me, much the way automotive radar detectors have different warning sounds for when they sense radar around somewhere and when the car is being pinged directly.
Technically (the best kind of correct!) There is a transmitter in these cases, just not controlled by the same source as the detector.
I suspect radiolocation isn’t restricted to radar signals but can track stars and radio stations. Though they too transmit.
Just because they dumbed down what a radiolocation sensor is and called it passive radar doesn’t make it a radar. RADAR was an acronym radio detection and ranging. Passive systems triangulate that is different than ranging. For ranging to work you need the transmitter and receiver to cooperate.
A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One, we don’t have any tunnel boring machines, and two, we don’t have any tunnel boring machines. Now I realise that, technically speaking, that’s only one flaw but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.
America doesn’t have a fascism problem, Americans just like to see themselves as some sorts of victims. Russia, China and Iran do have a real fascism problem though.
The republican/right wing party attempted to overthrow an election. And they are unabashed about that. And somehow they still have a 3rd of the country still supporting them.
Is that not enough for us to qualify as having a real fascism problem?
Only once they’ve taken over. But once there’s more than the unavoidable fringe of them around and they start having a real shot at power, you have a problem, even if they can’t yet stop people from criticizing them
It’s probably because sending old scraps to Ukraine doesn’t make any money. Sending soldiers to die in Afghanistan was futile and guaranteed the production, sale, and shipment of more military tech/vehicles. Sending shit that was already made just costs money and doesn’t fellate the military industrial complex.
The idea that you think people in the Bush administration sent soldiers to Afghanistan to make money is insane, and shows me you have never worked in government or met anyone who has. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant Iraq, not Afghanistan (since the US was attacked and the whole world agreed on going into Afghanistan). But even for Iraq, no one is making calculations on what’s good for the military industrial complex - they’re guessing on if the cost of human life is worth the human lives saved and suffering prevented, and yes “spreading democracy”. We can certainly mock it now, and talk about the WMD justification proving false, but the idea of going to war to somehow make money is insane. War is a net negative (look up broken window theory) and everyone in government knows it. The point of war is to change the global order, not pad pocketbooks, and effecting global change still would be the point even if it worked for making money - which it doesn’t.
Not to mention that a Ukraine that survives the war relatively intact will then be familiar with NATO-standard equipment and not particularly likely to want to buy things from Russia
And will then join NATO as the 3rd, 4th, or 5th most combat prepared force. I’d assume they’d be behind the US and UK but in the mix of France, Germany, and Turkey.
Does it really cost money though? I would think that it’s far more expensive to just store & maintain our massive pile of outdated equipment. I imagine the military would be relieved to finally get rid of their hundreds of shitty A-10s rather than constantly pay for their existence at least, it seems like it’d save a lot of money. hint hint
I mean I wouldn’t wish using the A-10 upon anybody (eugh), especially Ukrainians. But it would be good for money
Because the half of the country that drools over the prospect of sending American sons and daughters to their death love dictators, like Putin, and hate liberals, like that Zelenskyy guy (I hear he's not even a Christian!)
I always feel the Air Force looks down upon close air support in favor of their more strategic mission. But they would never let the Army take CAS from them.
In case my opinion isn’t obvious, Everyone else has planes, why not the Army too?
You like that aircraft… check out the CH-53K King Stallion. They’re not without their problems, obviously, but if you’ve got to get it off the ground… there’s nothing the US has at least that has a comparable lift capacity.
so there are three custom chips ans then half of board is covered in individual gates anyway, i’m not an electronics specialist but it looks to me it could have been rolled into single FPGA, or even better ASIC. can’t get any, sanctioned i guess
Yes, thinking there would be a 6 month delay in response to NATO territory being invaded is absolutely delusional. There would be a Polish flag flying in Moscow in 3 weeks.
The Patriot system uses radar guidance. Radars can easily spots individual birds. A sixpack of reindeer, a sled, and one fat ass riding it should lit up like a chrismas tree for the radar.
However, according to the picture, OP only has the missiles, but no radar to guide them. In other words: he has dead weight that can’t hit shit.
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