ORAC,
Good to see the discussion going into the tech. direction, not political.
Originally Posted by
ORAC
A_Van.
With the best will in the world, OTH radar is only effective used over large areas of sea.
Why sea only? It works over solid ground, too. But talking about East Med, water matters, indeed.
Originally Posted by
ORAC
There are surface wave coastal radars effective out to a couple of hundred miles, but only against surface targets, they wouldn’t pick up a cruise missile.
I did not mean that kind of a radar, but more "classic" ones, with some 3000 km range.
Originally Posted by
ORAC
Even if they could, detection range and identification in a crowded, and doubtless highly jammed EW environment like the eastern Med would be a nightmare.
Direct identification is of course not possible, but simply excluding "friends" we get "foe".
As for "highly jammed", it depends on particular wave length.
It would be very hot around 10 GHz, but OTHRs typically operate in the 2-30 MHz window.
I would be interested to see a jammer for this bandwidth.