Post #1668333

2026-04-16 18:46 UTC

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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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-04-16 19:01

> And locating radar emissions is a passive process, it doesn’t reveal your own location That depends very much so on the radar system. In practical terms, almost all the radar systems we're discussing here are going to be both transmitter and receiver in one design. You can't simply rely on passive radio energy to detect moving objects in a complex environment. You would want both passive and active beam forming in one instrument; not having both is just leaving some of the most valuable developments in modern radar on the table. And the specific radar we're discussing, is an active, pulsed LFM phased-array radar. It does both, because, obviously it needs to do both. Its wouldn't be useful for its intended use if it *cant* do both.

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@Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-16 18:54

Basically you deny enemy armor and other infantry support into the area you are working in, which means the infantry can't operate effectively in that area.

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