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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP13 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 Stars13 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 Supporting Member of TMP14 Oct 2017 11:55 a.m. PST

(smile)


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Personal logo piper909 Supporting Member of TMP15 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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