(Denyav) wrote:

So far, the best anyone's been able to really establish is that, under
some conditions, a good multistatic system can act as a very general
early warning radar against good stealth airframes, but not enough to
manage specific targeting solutions. Mostly due to detecting the
turbulence in the air well after a plane flies by...

There is absolutely nothing to do with turbulence.(Turbulence story again is
created by the Brits a couple of years ago as part of the disinformation
package to hide capabilities of their own system)

No, it's a major advantage of modern radars. If you can't detect the
tiny radar signatures of airplanes, detect the much larger signatures of
the disturbed air in their wake. It's actually an easier solution than
trying to make multistatics work good enough to catch a stealth plane.

ALL modern multi statics use forward scatterers from target (passive stealth
platforms are designed to eliminate backscatterers and atmosphere is full of
man made EM waves) for target detection,tracking and imaging purposes.

But, once again, the physics that makes a good stealth plane (few hot
spots, general radar absorption) makes multistatic radars fairly
useless, except under one or two very specific angles, and only for very
short periods of time.

Yes none of them have able to demonstrate such capabilities to
public,because the air force,only official user of stealth platforms
in US,showing cold shoulders to Mitchell style Stealth vs Multistatic
demonstration idea.(I think they already know something about the
outcome of a such demo.)

Yes, they know it won't work very well, and are very happy to have
people like Russia selling fairly useless hardware to every second-rate
dictator on the planet. If they do a public demo and show it won't
work, someone might actually spend some time on a system that would be
more effective.

"Da, Comrade, new radar will detect all new American stealth planes."

"Then what just blew up our command center?"

a good multistatic system can act as a very general
early warning radar against good stealth airframes, but not enough to
manage specific targeting solutions. Mostly due to detecting the
turbulence in the air well after a plane flies by...

A good multistatic is able to detect and track targets
as small as a grain of sand at distances around 600 miles.

Claimed but not actually demonstrated. In the few public tests I've
heard of, they're just not that good. Not to mention that a radar that
detects sand grains will detect, well, sand grains.

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