With a telephoto lens, all telescopes have electronic
displays, but many pilots carry [ied] binoculars.


"Red Rider" wrote in message
m...
|A telescope, ROTFLMAO. "Shiver me timbers mate's, pieces of
eight on dead
| men's chest" and all that other pirate talk, The telescope
must have been
| introduced by the "Jolly Rogers". The mental image of a
GIB from
| VF-84/VF-103 standing up in the back seat scanning the sky
with a spyglass
| and shouting to the pilot, "Thar be the target!" was just
too much for me to
| bear.
|
| It's an "AN/AXX-1 Television Camera Set (TCS)". Even with
enhancements and
| under the best of conditions you can probably ID a DC-10
at 80 miles, F-111
| at 40 miles, C-130 at 35 miles and F-5 at 10 miles.
However there are newer
| designs that may be able to do better, especially with all
the computing
| power available today in smaller packages.
|
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:FF6zg.84651$ZW3.43673@dukeread04...
| With a few possible exceptions, fighter aircraft radar
is
| two types, a search and a fire control radar. Both have
a
| fairly small cone in which to detect a target. They
depend
| on being vectored in the general direction of a threat
in
| order to detect a target. Also, military aircraft have
| radar detectors that warn the pilot/crew that they are
being
| painted by somebody's radar.
|
| But it isn't really a system designed for anti-collision
| use, but to keep from being shot down or to find a
target to
| shoot. The F14 even has a telescope to allow visual
| confirmation of targets that are 100 miles away after
the
| radar has found the target, rules of engagement require
| visual confirmation.
|
|
| --
| James H. Macklin
| ATP,CFI,A&P
|
| "Ed Rasimus" wrote in
message
| ...
| | On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:35:46 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| | wrote:
| |
| | True, but often they have an AWACS or military ground
| radar.
| |
| |
| | No kidding? They also often have their own radar and
have
| been trained
| | to look at it and interpret it with greater detail
than
| following an
| | up/down arrow on a TCAS. They've also been trained to
| provide their
| | own separation and to operate in areas without the
| | all-seeing/all-knowing motherliness of Air Traffic
| Control.
| |
| | Nevertheless as Mr. Dighera incessantly points out,
| "stuff"
| | happens--but it ain't murder.
| |
| | Ed Rasimus
| | Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
| | "When Thunder Rolled"
| | www.thunderchief.org
| | www.thundertales.blogspot.com
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