Post #1668332

2026-04-16 18:13 UTC

Yeah I should correct myself Finding them isn't the hard part you are right. Finding a spot that you can shoot them from without being exposed yourself is the hard part. The range on an unguided howitzer is much less than radar, and the guided ones are more than $20,000 and the accurate range is not much longer than the cheap radar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

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@bright@piefed.social 2026-04-16 18:46

Locating radar emissions is a passive process, it doesn't reveal your own location. That's why i said the radar array would have to have very strong defenses extending out 30 km in all 360 degree directions from each individual radar station. And if a group has that strong a level of military equipment already then i don't see why they would need this huge redundant array of radar stations all concentrated in a small area.

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@teft@piefed.social 2026-04-17 13:04

Many counter fire radars have tracked their own incoming death. You have a good minute or so from first track until the round impacts. That’s enough time to track the round and send out a counterbattery mission destroying the fucks that killed you buy you’re still dead unless the round happens to be a dud.

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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-04-16 18:37

A quad copter with 500g of payload would be just as effective

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