Originally Posted by
Courtney Mil
You are spot on. And linking sensors brings another benefit in synthetic apature technology, which doesn't just offer amazing resolution, it also exploits the LO hotspots of targets. Mix that with radars of different frequencies, polarizations and PRFs and you have a system that is far greater than the sum of its parts. The Russians have been working in this area for decades and the Chinese have been 'researching' their technology too.
Absolutely correct. This is why it now takes a combination of EMC/com jamming, low signature aircraft, and cruise missiles to take out the fixed/less mobile radars, in order to have any chance of penetrating a modern IADS. Fortunately there aren’t too many IADS that match either the Chinese or Russian’s in their level of sophistication.