On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:13:12 +0100, ess (phil
hunt) wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:49:37 GMT, Thomas Schoene wrote:
"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:14:32 -0600, Scott Ferrin
wrote:

That's assuming the Typhoon can detect an LPI radar.

What's that, and how is it different from other radars?

LPI = Low probability of intercept. Usually a psuedo-random spread-spectum
signal that looks like random noise to a typical radar warning receiver.

Do you (or anyone else) have any estimate on how effective this is?


Here's something from Gulf War 1. In the book Gulf War Debrief by
Airtime Publishing they were interviewing a Tomcat pilot. He made the
comment that whenever the Iraqis detected a Tomcat's radar they'd
split but they never seemed to react to the F-15s (F-15s got the
majority of the kills, Tomcats got a chopper I think). Later I read
that the F-15s that went to the Gulf had LPI radars.