OT: Radar on metal buckets

If you've ever worried about the threat from supersonic tennis balls, then BAE Systems? Artisan medium-range Type 997 3D surveillance radar should put you at ease ? it can detect one traveling at Mach 3 (1,980 mph, 3,186 km/h) at a distance of 25 kilometers (15.5 mi). The new radar, developed for the Royal Navy?s Type 23 Duke-class frigates, is designed to simultaneously detect 900 targets smaller than a bird, against background noise equivalent to 10,000 mobile phone signals at ranges from 200 meters (656 ft) to 200 kilometers (124 mi). (continued)

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That's some sensitive radar.

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Larry Jaques
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Not so sensitive, as in signal properties, but as in ability to detect moving targets.

Paul

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Paul Drahn

Holy shit! With that linked to gunnery..they could theoretically shoot down just about anything big enough to put do more than fleck the paint!

Ill bet when they turn that sucker on...birds fall out of the sky, extra crispy

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"The radar has been described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away. The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theatre assets."

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PrecisionmachinisT

Perhaps I should have said discriminating?

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Larry Jaques

That is a small one. The big ones can track nuts and bolts floating in space and track the orbits of them in real time. They can do ion analysis on incoming objects.

But it is to large for a boat or a ship to tote about so the little brothers and sister units take to the sea.

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being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away. The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theatre assets."

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Martin Eastburn

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