Originally posted by Churchill
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However this is shifting subject from detecting airplanes and submarines.
Airplane can be detected in more way than one - if there are clouds over base fine, but it takes off and flies - this allows radars to pick it up, radio traffic chatter before it goes up is a big give away too - do you know that those airplanes in Russia take off very rarely? Almost any activity at the base will be indication the take off is imminent.
So no need to deviate from the subject to yellow submarines and other stuff - Tu-160 are now regularly intercepted well before they enter danger zone. Sometimes it does not happen because either Govt (UK) is too tight or (in my view) US Govt does not want to show exact ranges of detection to that aircraft.
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