"Soon U.S. Warplanes Could See Through Clouds" Topic
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Tango01  | 13 Oct 2017 10:19 p.m. PST |
"Despite big advancements in sensor technology in recent years, clouds can still block a warplane crew's view — and make it impossible to support troops on the grounds. Synthetic aperture radars can peer through weather, but these sensors generally are too big and unwieldy to help in a fast-evolving close-air-support scenario. That could change soon. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tested a compact video synthetic aperture radar, or ViSAR, that can peer through clouds and pump radar-based full-motion video to a cockpit or crew station…"
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| Lion in the Stars | 13 Oct 2017 11:39 p.m. PST |
I think I just heard every A10 pilot squee with joy. I think one of those systems would be a perfect fit on the landing-gear pods of an A10. |
| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2017 11:55 a.m. PST |
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 piper909 | 15 Oct 2017 9:31 p.m. PST |
between the articles rhapsodically enthusing about planes firing through clouds and automatic weapons that fire themselves robotically, we must be on the verge of a Golden Age of antiseptic slaughter. |
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