Herald :

 

Sure... depending on time of day, time of year, time of solar cycle(s), and tropospheric "weather."  This causes the volume of airspace centered on Dreux Senonches AB in France to on average resemble a torus that under ideal conditions has an outer radius of 2000km and an inner radius of 700km.  However, conditions are basically never ideal, and at any moment and in any given direction that maximum ranges can shrink significantly, while that minimum range can increase significantly, due to the above-listed atmospheric influences.  Thus it may or may not detect anything at 2000km on a given azimuth at a given moment.  Furthermore, all it will detect is that there is one or more unidentified aircraft in that detection cell.  It sure would suck for France if among the hundreds of aircraft it is tracking flying here and there were some LO bombers flying close formation on some civilian airliners until they got within approximately 700km of Dreux Senonches AB and therefore within France's ability to detect LO bandits, before breaking off to launch on the Nostradomus facility--thus removing France's future ability to detect any more LO bandits in follow-on raids against the rest of the French IADS and C4 networks.

 

Thankfully, Russia doesn't have any LO bombers with which to do this, so France can breathe easy.

 

Yes we can, and yes we do.

 

I don't need to waste my time with you. If you want to know what I know; just hop a plane and enroll in one of our finer Engineering schools over here. They'll teach you the difference between a droop sensor and an auto-cannon, how armor works, what parasitic drag is, and how a radar is basically just a ranging radio. They will teach you how to fool it with everything from noisy microwave ovens to exploiting atmospheric humidity, to purpose built electronic warfare systems, to just knowing what crap limits and reads poorly made and designed radars give to their harassed operators,  like the defective sidelobe noise stricken RBE2 has for example. 

 

Better hope the same buffoons did not have a hand in Nostradamus. OOPS.

 

Oh well.. Did you know that ROTHR and Jindalee work just fine? 

 

Let me know when you catch on...........

 

Herald

 

 

 

 

Warpig , thank you . I am going to write right away to the French minister of Defense (Hervé Morin) and ask him to dismantle Nostradamus as it is such a crap and useless radar . We French are too stupid to see the truth , than you again Warpig .

 

You are also right Herald , don 't loose your time with me or you could take the risk to learn something  . Myself , I have no problem to admit that I do sometimes learn stuff from the posters here on SP , it happens quite frequently actually .

Herald , your knowledge on ground warfare in general , in Infantry tactics , Commando Ops and Tanks is very average while it is my field , sorry to say .

I will also specify in my letter to the French MoD to be very carefull about a US invasion of noisy microwave ovens , thank you .

 

Cheers .

I'm not the one who constantly swoons over it as if it is some sort of magic crystal ball, so don't come crying to me if it can't do everything you thought it could.  However, again, like I said more than once already, since the Russians don't have any LO bombers it remains a useful C4ISR sensor that (within its operating limitations, just like how every sensor has certain strengths and weaknesses) can contribute to the overall air surveillance picture that, along with the various other sources of early warning that France has as part of their integrated air surveillance network, will hopefully give the French air defense the data it needs to protect its airspace.

 

Herald :

I don't have to be compared to Hitler.

 

That is a libel. SYSOPS?

 

Herald

Herald , don 't start . You perfectly translated what I wrote :

 

"Herald , you are a first class imbecile with an Ego worthy of Hitler 's ""

 

I do not compare you to Hitler .

 

Cheers .