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"Pepperoni" wrote:
"Michael Zaharis" wrote in message ... xxxxxxxxxxx I remember reading about this one in AW&ST about this. This was, interestingly enough, a strategy developed by some US Air Force people who were researching potential threats. They came up with some sort of a strategy where a SU-27 or derivative uses some Cobra-like maneuver to drop the aircraft's velocity below the threshold set for the Doppler radar to discriminate between ground and moving aerial targets. How you would maintain that is fuzzy to me, but it seems that you'd have to maintain some flight path that keeps you at a constant, or slightly decreasing, radial distance from the aircraft trying to detect you. xxxxxxxxxxx The maneuver is to pitch the aircraft into vertical flight and maintain a constant altitude with the throttle. The aircraft has near zero airspeed, and constant altitude. This causes the targeting radar to disregard the return. The radar, looking for a moving aircraft does not identify the echo as a jet aircraft. Meanwhile, the attacker is emitting radar seek signals, closing on the target and being tracked by passive infrared. (and also giving a radar seek signal vector) I'm quite sure the Russians developed the maneuver to exploit our radar weakness before we had any idea. Pepperoni Pepperoni you're just too cute for words...I'd like to pinch your chubby little cheeks for you...and I want these nasty guys here to leave you alone... -- -Gord. |
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