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Iran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range
2014-06-05
So, the usual Iranian vapourware, or something that can actually detect at a distance between the length of two football fields and twice the circumference of the Earth?
Posted by:Uncle Phester

#11  Shipman - right after it was built 10,000 Spetznaz were assigned to protect it.
Posted by: 3dc   2014-06-05 17:05  

#10  It sounded like this:


And looks like this now:


Damn, Russian are, well damn, Russian.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-05 16:32  

#9  oh they change length with the temperature?

don't we all, 3DC, Don't we all.....
Posted by: Frank G   2014-06-05 16:28  

#8  Buzz Tehran and then go supersonic. When they complain about the sonic boom breaking windows we can claim "Wasn't us... you would have seen us from long range...".
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-06-05 15:35  

#7  Fine. Let's see if we can get one to buzz Tehran in the middle of the night.
Posted by: gorb   2014-06-05 14:57  

#6  At long range as they recede from sight after dropping a payload.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-06-05 14:37  

#5  The woodpecker Duga 3 could detect that a plane was at a particular latitude over the South Pole from its position near Chernobyl but had no clue as to it's longitude. You needed more of them to even triangulate.

How do I know? Long after the chief designer/project head of the Woodpecker defected he was a co-worker and close friend. He told me himself. He never admitted to it but I suspect the Chernobyl reactors were the three built for the Woodpecker.

I asked how they did the phased array and shuddered at his answer "carefully cut lengths of co-axial cable to each element".

Good luck maintaining that look-alike Iran!

But boss I swear I wasn't more than a cm off cutting that cable - oh they change length with the temperature?
Posted by: 3dc   2014-06-05 14:28  

#4  
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-06-05 12:32  

#3  "AHA! You silly Amellicans, what we do is see where there is nothin' and then we know that is where you is!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2014-06-05 10:21  

#2  Tropospheric bending does not a stealth detector make. Idiots.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-06-05 00:28  

#1  
Posted by: Squinty   2014-06-05 00:12  

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