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The 7MW radar that was installed on a one-of-a-kind variant of the RC-135: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135#RC-135E_Lisa_Ann_/_Rivet_Amber https://e
by H8crilA 4y ago
The 7MW radar that was installed on a one-of-a-kind variant of the RC-135:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135#RC-135E_Lisa_Ann_/_Rivet_Amber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135#RC-135E_Lisa_Ann...
From more negative things, the realities of war. See pictures from Mariupol for example, or listen to the intercepted phone calls from that region ...
- dmos62 4y ago> The system could track an object the size of a soccer ball from a distance of 300 miles (480 km), and its mission was to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing in the reentry phase Sounds pretty cool.
- H8crilA 4y agoIf you were to somehow point this radar back at the aircraft itself it would probably melt the airframe :)
- IYasha 4y agoAnd I wouldn't want to be that soccer ball either :) Radar-related stories from army service time are of the most frightening ones.
- H8crilA 4y agoNah, at a distance things are quite alright. EM power decreases with the second power of distance. At shorter distances you really have to be careful! Fighter jets have 3 no-go zones: engine inlet, engine outlet, the radome. It was a ridiculous system, though.