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Forgive my ignorance, but I'm probably not the only one who is wondering what COTS and RCS mean here?
by Stratoscope 6y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm probably not the only one who is wondering what COTS and RCS mean here?
- joshyeager 6y agoCommercial Off The Shelf Radar Cross Section
- cjhockey 6y agoCOTS: Commercial off the shelf, stuff you can buy easily. RCS: Radar Cross Section - how big of a reflection an object makes at radar wavelengths.
- KMag 6y agoCOTS -> Commercial off-the-shelf RCS -> Radar cross section
- whiw 6y ago"Customer Off The Shelf" and "Radar Cross Section"
- bee_rider 6y agoCOTS = Commercial off the shelf (stuff you could pick up in a Radioshack before they became mini-Bestbuys, basically). RCS = Radar Cross-section (a bit more field-specific, more or less how "big" the thing looks on radar, but it is a bit jargony -- it depends on things like the material and radar wavelength).