• Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know where you are getting this 1km cluster idea from.

    The point of cheaper radar systems is that you don’t need to defend them as much, because destroying them requires equipment that’s more expensive than the radar station. They overlap, and the locating that they provide can both protect the stations themselves and other targets in their coverage area.

    How are those tanks going to maneuver undetected without air support?

    • bright@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      That’s the topic of the thread your replying in. Quote:

      you could theoretically make a moderately large distributed array sprinkled over a few square kilometers

        • teft@piefed.social
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          3 days ago

          Radars are already deployed like that. Most radars sit many kilometers from each other because of interference and not needing the extra coverage. Radar coverage is absolutely enormous for modern systems.