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Old 8th Oct 2016, 20:42
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Basil
 
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Height is not really the correct altimetric term but the answer would be 30,150 feet.
Re detection, a towed phased array radar is used which uses the surface of the sea as an aerial. The devil is in designing the algorythm to use the correct basic frequency for the temperature and sea state. The PRF must not be a harmonic of the basic or lesser wave patterns or the surface returns swamp the air return.
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