Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
In modern warfare ships are detected by radar before visual, whether from radar on a ship, aircraft, or shore based. Therefore the ship with the smaller RCS has an advantage, both in detection and track/lock.
Same with aircraft, any modern military radar will pick up another aircraft before it is in visual range. Lower RCS reducing the range of that detection, and limiting any link in the kill chain from track to lock to terminal that relies on RF detection is at an advantage.
If a ship approaches within visual range of the coast, which is the stated purpose of the LCS, all the stealth tech in the world is useless.
You have got to get there undetected first!
My God, you are dense!
Yeah, sure. That wake is a real bitch to hide. My gosh but you're fucking stupid.
A wake? How do you see a wake in the dark? In the fog? At a much slower speed?
I think you are the biggest idiot I have encountered. Did you recently suffer a head injury? No one should be that stupid.
Now I know you're stupid. Stupid beyond belief. They have been tracking fleets by their wakes for YEARS silly boy. SAR, and optical both. From space nimrod. I think it was you who were dropped on your head. And from a great height.
Abstract
Ships and their wakes can often be detected in the high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provided by satellites. Image processing techniques can be used to enhance extremely weak ship wake patterns, but occasionally, the ship in the SAR image remains invisible. In the SAR image below (Figure 1), two trailing, dark, turbulent wakes are seen. In addition to the dark, turbulent wakes, one side of a ship's Kelvin wake can sometimes be seen as a bright line. One of the ships is seen as a bright spot caused by backscattering at the end of the trail above A in Figure
Mystery ship detected in SAR image
Ship Wakes SAR Imagery
I hope you are planning on being on the next Olympic team. You have leaped from RPG-7s to howitzers to satellites with synthetic aperture radars.
I will remind you of you comment about the Mk 1 eyeball. Stick to the argument.
I am sure Somali pirates have that kind of equipment at their disposal. What a fucking nimrod!
You simply are a Google-minded idiot, impressed with your ability to provide an answer, no matter how stupid, to any rebuttal you are given.
You really are one fucked-up individual. I have one major suggestion for you!
Grow up!
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