phongn wrote:
Did you even bother to read what you cited?
Yes, they are big honking radar designed to detect incoming threats, except as noted, we have a very small world. It's a useful system when you have hundreds of miles of open ocean rather than less than a hundred. Of nations in the world you have one of the largest area of open ocean, but still its less than fifty miles worth. It's a huge amount of overkill, and that's my point.
phongn wrote:
Which, of course, is why I spent a couple years in-game developing this, especially the signals processing elements and this ties into the rest of my heavy investment into air/missile defense. I would've been well within my rights to just handwave it in (since it's pre-existing technology) but I took the long view (also have to account for local ionosphere conditions)
Which I commend you for, good job Phong, your scientists should be proud of a system able to detect and classify over a thousand separate sources(Civilian traffic is roughly 14-80 planes per country in the air at one time per country since so many of us are first world), plus military flights plus civilians because so many countries are first world you can be sure there's tons of little Cessna's running around joyriding. What I meant by my comments is to demonstrate the shear scale of how many planes your average first world country has, then add in civilian planes, now add in the fact there are twenty odd first world countries and over ten European sized countries.
phongn wrote:
Nothern Wilkonia is within the minimum range, anyways.
Assuming you fire from the northern side of your country and said ICBM's would bbe weak to being hit in the boost phase.
phongn wrote:
Tell that to Australia, who just built JORN.
And Austrailia has hundreds of miles of open ocean to look in.
Again it's the scale I'm pointing at that makes such a system useless for early warning. Sheppard need lever leave his airspace to open up on your country. Nor does Wikionia.
Hell Saddamstian does not even need to leave his airspace to launch cruise missiles to the IRT...
Not... that it's a good idea since the FUN, the Mess, and myself would all assume said cruise missile was meant for us.
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