Re: AWACS vs JSTARS

On May 30, 8:47 pm, Charles Talleyrand <kitplan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 30, 8:57 am, Typhoon502 <jeb.h...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On May 30, 2:24 am, Charles Talleyrand <kitplan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But one might reasonably want a radar plane useful for both ground
surveillance and air control, especially for a smaller nation that
cannot afford too many aircraft (i.e. anyone except the U.S.).

The obvious answer is to have an AWACS style radar mounting and then
for ground surveillance the plane stands off a considerable distance,
so that the radar is looking past the wings/fuselage, and not through
them. However looking at such an angle causes buildings and hills to
cast longer radar shadows than looking at a more vertical angle.

In practice, what is done to solve this? And in theory how might one
overcome these difficulties?

I posted too soon. :-/ At any rate, I'm not sure you really want to
try to stuff both missions into one airframe, unless it's the size of
a 777 and can handle the hardware, power, cooling, and manning
requirements that you'd need to really, properly push enough wattage
through the sky.

I do not think that such a plane could do both missions at the same
time. However a military might want to have the flexibility to do
either mission as needed.

Consider Australia and Turkey. Both are buying AWACS style planes,
but probably wish they could have a more flexible plane. What could
be done to produce such a plane?


The E-10 program is trying to do both in one airframe, but last time I
heard,
that program was in serious budget trouble. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-10_MC2A

and

http://integrator.hanscom.af.mil/2005/July/07072005/07072005-14.htm

.

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