Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
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Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
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Re: Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
#2That's wild. So was it some temperature inversion near the surface of the water or something, where the air was cooler below than above?
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#3Makes me wonder whether the more competent militaries of the world take this kind of stuff into account when considering whether they're safely out of enemy radar range.
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#4Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment?
Lock-on after launch is certainly a possibility, and one i see making more sense considering the 1/r^4 nature of radar echo reception and the fact there's not much point in dimensioning a radar system past its expected detection horizon under normal conditions.
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#5I feel like this is a known tactic. the US Army has been using scatter communications since the Vietnam War to make radio communications go further.
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#8Interesting.
Or tune your Soviet search radar down to the lowest setting to defeat stealth aircraft when their bomb bay doors are open just about when they're RTB.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/stealth-shootout-1999...
Re: Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
#9That's wild. So was it some temperature inversion near the surface of the water or something, where the air was cooler below than above?
It explains it in the paper on pages 6-8.
Re: Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
#10Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment? Lock-on after launch is certainly a possibility, and one i see making more sense considering the 1/r^4 nature of radar echo reception and the fact there's not much point in dimensioning a radar system past its expected detection horizon under normal conditions.
> Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment?
Drones were speculated to have been involved but it was said they were used to distract the ship's defense system as the missiles were in the air, not in the initial spotting/targeting. Although I suppose they could've pretty easily done both.