Hallowe'en and UFOs - Bilge

SS Satan's Sin Member Imperial Beach, CA Joined: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: 729	SS Satan's Sin Posted posted on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 2:43 PM Geeky -- On warships there are two basic types of radar: surface search and air search (there is also AEGIS, but let's not get into that). Air search can't see targets below 500 ft. (roughly), and surface search couldn't see contacts above that height. On our ship, since we didn't have an anti-air mission, we didn't have an air search radar at all, although our gun turrents had little bitty radars they used for targeting, surface or air, but those were only on during actual gunnery practice. So. No one was looking at the surface search radar when the UFO appeared for its brief two seconds. And then when it had zipped up into the sky, there was no air search radar to track it. Good question, though! [ Edited by: Satan's Sin 2005-10-17 14:48 ]

Geeky --

On warships there are two basic types of radar: surface search and air search (there is also AEGIS, but let's not get into that). Air search can't see targets below 500 ft. (roughly), and surface search couldn't see contacts above that height.

On our ship, since we didn't have an anti-air mission, we didn't have an air search radar at all, although our gun turrents had little bitty radars they used for targeting, surface or air, but those were only on during actual gunnery practice.

So. No one was looking at the surface search radar when the UFO appeared for its brief two seconds. And then when it had zipped up into the sky, there was no air search radar to track it.

Good question, though!

[ Edited by: Satan's Sin 2005-10-17 14:48 ]

Post #193167 by Satan's Sin on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 2:43 PM