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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

Basically you deny enemy armor and other infantry support into the area you are working in, which means the infantry can't operate effectively in that area.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not understanding. Let's say army A has a radar array of 500 relatively cheap radar stations. They clump them all into a 1 square km area. So now army Z drives some howitzers nearby (which aren't detectable by ground based radar), waits till a radar station turns on, the passively locates the radar base station, and shoots a cheap shell at it which destroys it.

    But if you say army A has the level of military equipment that can locate and destroy howitzers up to 30 km away in all directions, then what benefit does an array of concentrated radar stations provide?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    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

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