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Originally posted by Deharg
What I was asking was a generic question concerning the accuracy or otherwise of the near hysterical nay sayers concerning CAPTOR and other Mscan systems about how superior this or that is. Is that classified ?? Nope didn't think so...
Originally posted by Deharg
What I am trying to stimulate debate about is why anyone thinks an AESA system (from wherever) with a shorter range and worse or equal A2A target aquisition etc is "better". Because it's new technology or AESA is not an answer.
Originally posted by Deharg
If I want to know about RADAR I can go to many websites and get all sorts of data that many on here would consider "classified". It is not classified i.e secret if it is in the public domain. Even though my own government is more paranoid about this than most.
No doubt as they develop the radar engineers are hard at work ..............But I doubt we will see anything concrete for some time.
Originally posted by Deharg
Not wishing to have a go at anyone here but doesn't the so called advantage of millisecond scanning and target discrimination etc....depend not upon the way in which the beam is sent and or recieved but more upon what is done with that information with the associated computer processing packages ?
From what I read it is possible with 1100-1500 or so TR modules ( sorry yes I do know something (little) about this) to have a very "nice" system. The issue is the associated computing power requirement is enormous, and the heat generated by the system in peak use is gigantic......
This is the kind of thing I was talking about.