On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:58:21 -0400, "John Keeney"
wrote:


"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
.. .
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
g
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.

I had not heard that, do remember a source?



Yeah. It was one of the more recent issues of either Airpower Review
(the Blue publication that has since been discontinued) or Internation
Airpower Review (the silver one) by Airtime Publishing. Sorry I
can't be more specific but they're boxed up and in storage. Basically
it said that around the time of the first gulf war F-15Cs were being
upgraded with the capability and then when the war started (or the
buildup I guess) they were the ones that got sent.