Re: Fire Control lock-on musings

Another off the subject query.	If British radars could pick up US
stealth 
fighters during the Gulf war, doesn't that mean the original potential 
targets of the stealth fighters (the soviet bloc) would have been able
to as 
well since their equipment tended to be even older that the british.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Fisher" <laranzu@ozemail.com.au>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:36 AM
>>
>>If you have 2 1945 radar sets, do they equal
>>a 1960s radar set in ability?
>
> I've read that in the 1991 Gulf War British warships
> with older radar sets could indeed track F-117 stealth
> bombers, because the RAM coating had been designed for
> shorter wavelengths. "old" = "worse" is a dangerous
> line of thinking.
>
> cheers,
> Hugh