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Hi Phil T.
That was pretty sad. I note here the good 'Doctor' Malcolm Davis of Bond University has zero technical training in the area he's writing about, but has apparently been a 'policy' cog in several defense-oriented organizations. There he may have rubbed up against people who probably knew something about modern radars and mistakenly assumed some knowledge rubbed off on him. The critical mistakes in his rather weak assertions are many, but none so damning to his position as (in no particular order) 1. failure to recognize the same vulnerabilities in any complex China defense system or 2. Not accounting for/ignoring that the current defense planning allows for the kinds of counterstrategies he speaks of 3. he's not privy to EW techniques/knowledge that those who do defense planning are (not tha he would understand them if he did) and 4. the fact he apparently suffers from Thomas S. Amlie blindness syndrome. (http://elementsofpower.blogspot.com/2012/05/giovanni-de-briganti-shillin-for-euros.html). For the F-35's radar, like much of where air defense (and airborne) systems are going is a Low Probability of Intercept Radar (LPIR) direction. The funny thing about LPIR is that it 'knows' what type it is, knows the carrier frequency used at any point in time, knows the modulation bandwidth used at any point in time, knows the modulation period, knows the scan timing that determines where the radar beam(s) is/are pointed at any one time, and knows when the radar modulation pattern used begins. Any system trying to detect them know none of these things, which creates the 'low probability' in LPIR.
Jul 24, 2015, 10:55:15 PM
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