Another Intercept, but this time it's different

wrote:
According to the story, which we all know how accurate those can be, he was
"NEAR" 18000, I read that as 17,999 and not 18,001. Benefit of the doubt
to him, especially given the accuracy of the equipment.

This is Edwards AFB. The accuracy of military radar is along the lines of "He's
at 18,027' 1", Captain."

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

Yeah... Did not think about that fact...


On Sat, 28 May 2005 01:59:38 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

wrote:
According to the story, which we all know how accurate those can be, he was
"NEAR" 18000, I read that as 17,999 and not 18,001. Benefit of the doubt
to him, especially given the accuracy of the equipment.

This is Edwards AFB. The accuracy of military radar is along the lines of "He's
at 18,027' 1", Captain."

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.


Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

"Mike 'Flyin'8'" wrote in message
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Yeah... Did not think about that fact...


On Sat, 28 May 2005 01:59:38 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

wrote:
According to the story, which we all know how accurate those can be, he
was
"NEAR" 18000, I read that as 17,999 and not 18,001. Benefit of the
doubt
to him, especially given the accuracy of the equipment.

This is Edwards AFB. The accuracy of military radar is along the lines of
"He's
at 18,027' 1", Captain."

They can also say, "The pilot is a male Caucasian, 34 years old, 5'11" tall
and 205 lbs, married with two kids...not getting any from his old lady."

"Matt Barrow"
They can also say, "The pilot is a male Caucasian, 34 years old, 5'11"
tall
and 205 lbs, married with two kids...not getting any from his old lady."


I feel for the guy - everyone wants him to keep clear of their restricted
zones!


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
...

"Matt Barrow"
They can also say, "The pilot is a male Caucasian, 34 years old, 5'11"
tall
and 205 lbs, married with two kids...not getting any from his old lady."


I feel for the guy - everyone wants him to keep clear of their restricted
zones!


Hide the wim'men!!

Matt Barrow wrote:

at 18,027' 1", Captain."


They can also say, "The pilot is a male Caucasian, 34 years old, 5'11" tall
and 205 lbs, married with two kids...not getting any from his old lady."

I guess this is the same data gathering ability that said "Yes, Iraq had
WMD's" as well?

Not trying to flame a political debate, but yanno... there IS a limit to
capabilities.

Dave

"Dave S" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

at 18,027' 1", Captain."


They can also say, "The pilot is a male Caucasian, 34 years old, 5'11"
tall
and 205 lbs, married with two kids...not getting any from his old lady."

I guess this is the same data gathering ability that said "Yes, Iraq had
WMD's" as well?

Not trying to flame a political debate, but yanno... there IS a limit to
capabilities.

Ya know...some people equate intelligence gathering the way that Hollywood
portrays it in the spy movies.

I guess all those 100,000 Kurds really weren't gassed, huh?

Dave S wrote:

I guess this is the same data gathering ability that said "Yes, Iraq had
WMD's" as well?

No, this is a state-of-the-art military radar system.

Not trying to flame a political debate,

Bull****.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

In article x86me.6153$Fb.4615@trndny07,
George Patterson wrote:

No, this is a state-of-the-art military radar system.

which military radar is can determine altitude with such
precision?

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

Bob Noel wrote in news:ihatessppaamm-
:

In article x86me.6153$Fb.4615@trndny07,
George Patterson wrote:

No, this is a state-of-the-art military radar system.

which military radar is can determine altitude with such
precision?

Edwards AFB is used as a testing and proving ground. As such,
they have radars and optical tracking abilities for following
flight tests in extreme detail. A lot of the footage you see
on The Military Channel (formerly Discovery Wings) of older
aircraft being tested, for example the X planes, was taken
here.

It would not surprise me that they could take a picture of any
aircraft within range and tell you it's position, orientation
and velocity to three decimal places using their radars. It's
their job.

BTW, Edwards was used to help track SpaceShipOne and to confirm
it's record and prize winning altitude.

This article covers the test of a new radar system on SS1...
http://www.edwards.af.mil/archive/20...ive-spads.html

An interesting quote about the radars capabilities...

"Then (the aircraft) will fly by and drop a whole load of
bombs, and this radar can actually see all the individual
bombs, see them spin, see the fins come out, the whole works."

I just did quite a bit of Googling and not surprisingly, didn't
find any exact specifications. But I did see a reference to one
radar having .1 milliradian angle resolution and 20ft distance
resolution. It was described as being a basic radar of lesser
capability.

Then I found mention of imaging radars. I forgot all about
those things. If you think about it, it has to be pretty high
resolution in order to actually make an image using radar returns.
Now that I've been reminded of this, I recall seeing a program
on one of those Discovery like channels that showed the imaging
radar image from a cruise missile, and in it you could even make
out the wires between high voltage towers.

Hope this has been of some help.

Brian
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