The current developments in international politics, mainly the advent of
rogue states attacking sovereign countries from air, causes a necessity of
proliferation of cheap air defense solutions. Key part of air defense is
the awareness, usually maintained by a network of ground radar stations.
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> As an active twist, we can also use a separate unit, Illuminating
> Transceiver (IT), periodically broadcasting a pulse of known
> characteristics, easy to recognize by the LPs when it bounces from an
> aerial target. This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to
> locate and to destroy
At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to
>locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the
adversary
>to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be
quite
>demoralizing.
Microwave ovens were us
