Over a flat surface like sea? Depends on how high up above the sea surface the radar is located.How low does an air craft need to fly to avoid radar detection? Also can SAMs be fired at low flying aircraft?
Depends what that country had and where you were flying. Altitude is no longer a protection against airborne radar so any airforce with any serious air-to-air capability could pick you up without any real difficulty.what i would like to know is could an aircraft fly low over a country which is not in a time of war or crisis and not be detected?
not really. OTHR and SWR can sort out ground clutterwell there not undetectable but when you fly low there is more radar clutter caused by the ground so you are harder to detect...
i am excited to hear that story from lebanon in 83. my father was stationed on the U.S.S. Wainwright in 83 off the coast of lebanon. i have always been searching for stories of events he went thru. i really don't know him as well as id like and hearing stories kinda lets me get ideas on what he went thru. Anytime i have tried to find anything on his service and its all too classified for me to know. as far as i know he was a seal attached to the carrier group the Wainwright was a part of. thank you for this. i sill continue my search for more info.Dear Members,
Not always with low flying aircraft. In a letter by a US Navy commander of a warship off of the Lebanon coast in 1983 he told of his look outs spotting a small aircraft approaching them and he kept warning the commander of the naval unit off of Lebanon (based on an Aegis cruiser) and the commander kept coming back stating there was no aircraft and at last the reporting commander prepared to go to general quarters when the aircraft flew away from his ship (ie it was discovered it was a Lebanese AF trainer). That is why a number of navies have not only radar units but IR units to pick up aircraft. And why the old fashion triple-A cannon is still important.
Jack E. Hammond
That's a very nice capability to have when fused with radar and other ship sensors. I wonder though how well it would fare though in adverse weather conditions?Northrop Grumman is developing & testing a seaborne version of the F-35's EODAS.
Silent Watch EO/DAS
This would be a Horizon to Horizon 360 24/7 detection system where other IR & radar assets would be queued for ID purposes.
I think the real question would be how it would fair versus the same system on another platform, like the F-35. If both are degraded equally then it doesn't pose an advantage probably does give an advantage either way.That's a very nice capability to have when fused with radar and other ship sensors. I wonder though how well it would fare though in adverse weather conditions?