Re: Battle blimps

At 1:40 PM +0200 4/18/02, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

>One rather obvious victim is the Doppler radar used against airplanes.
>This is tuned to filter out stationary or slow-moving objects (terrain
>or cars). A blimp could well stay below its detection speeds. However,
>this would mostly be useful if the blimp is flying low. Against a
>high-flying target, the Doppler filter could simply be switched off, as
>there isn't anything there to clutter the radar reception.

Except weather. Build a large portion of the blimp transparent to the 
radar that doesn't see water.
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