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2014-06-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range
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 2014-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 
Posted by Squinty 2014-06-05 00:12||   2014-06-05 00:12|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2014-06-05 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-05 12:32||   2014-06-05 12:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-06-05 14:28|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2014-06-05 14:57|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-06-05 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-06-05 16:28|| Front Page Top

#10 It sounded like this:


And looks like this now:


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

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

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