I think the conventional wisdom is that Iraq has learned at least something from Kosovo. Here's an interesting story of how they defeated U.S. radar seeking missles with microwave ovens. Could this be true?
The Amana Radar Range
Of course. My grandparents had one of these. I remember it well. I never really connected the name with the other kind of radar.
I guess it's just another negative of going to war - that you give present and future enemies a chance to try out different low tech measures against your theoretically superior weapons.
The article was interesting. The premise is that a microwave oven could fool a simple radar seeking bomb, but not the pilot/weapons officer of a fighter. But that was enough to undermine a particular style of attack.
The military-industrial complex uses measure/countermeasure escalation to fuel spending. If a microwave oven can fool a HARMS bomb, then a better HARMS may be on the drawing board. But with a surplus PC coupled to the control panel of a microwave oven ... and so on and so on.
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- jim 4-01-2003 3:38 am
The Amana Radar Range
- mark 4-01-2003 3:42 am
Of course. My grandparents had one of these. I remember it well. I never really connected the name with the other kind of radar.
I guess it's just another negative of going to war - that you give present and future enemies a chance to try out different low tech measures against your theoretically superior weapons.
- jim 4-01-2003 3:51 am
The article was interesting. The premise is that a microwave oven could fool a simple radar seeking bomb, but not the pilot/weapons officer of a fighter. But that was enough to undermine a particular style of attack.
The military-industrial complex uses measure/countermeasure escalation to fuel spending. If a microwave oven can fool a HARMS bomb, then a better HARMS may be on the drawing board. But with a surplus PC coupled to the control panel of a microwave oven ... and so on and so on.
- mark 4-01-2003 4:01 am
More on the HARM
- mark 4-02-2003 9:27 am