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In article <7372@celery15.UUCP> skeffing@motcid.UUCP (John F. Skeffington) writes:
   ... The implication
   of being able to detect a stealth aircraft at 250 miles woufd be that
   it could detect a "normal" aircraft at several times that distance.  I 
   find this very interesting and would like to know more about it. 

I believe that those large (drivein theatre screen-sized) phased array radars
you see in some of the journals from time to time use "back-scattering". To
my understanding backscattering bounces signals off the upper layers of
atmosphere to "see" over the horizon. Added benefit is looking "down" on your
target, negating the effect of head-on countermeasures (stealth aircraft
emphasize reducing the "head-on" radar signature).

I have heard that large coastal phased arrays were used in the eastern block
for a few years before the west started using them.

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