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.

The matter wasn't as much "age", as it was the frequency band that is
used. There isn't necessarily a correlation between the older British
equipment and Russian equipment, in that regard.

Another important aspect of stelthy airplanes is that the strength of
the
returned signal varies strongly with minute differences in angle. This
means that automatic tracking systems may easily get fooled into
believing
this isn't a real signal, but rather random noise. A good operator may
be
able to determine there is "something there" where the automatic systems
fall for the trick and don't see it.

Cheers,

     Derk