Convenience store at the Rebel gas station?

You hear these stories of RCS of a sparrow, etc. but you have to really
wonder if this is true. They shot down that F117a in Yugoslavia (I
think) using bistatic radar.

The other question is why isn't computer simulation good enough these
days?

Lastly, our enemies today seem pretty lethal with glorified pipe bombs,
car bombs,truck bombs, rockets in the ambulance, etc.  Maybe we need to
spend our money on other areas of research.


howie90210 wrote:

makes you wonder what they have left to test ?  seems like most of the
current  stealth equipment has been tested to death by now.
there are a number of similar type facilities hanging  around these
days too.

seems like a lot of investment to leave sitting idle , they must be
doing something there , you'd think !

while sitting and watching some air maneuvers between a couple of
f-16s and a raptor  (  a couple of weeks ago at that convenience store
on the highway at Nellis  ) ,  an airman getting some gas said the
raptor has the RCS of a dragonfly !  might have  tested mock-ups of
that at  Tejon too !




On 4 Nov 2005 14:16:20 -0800, miso@sushi.com wrote:

I took at look at Tom Mahood's report on Tejon and what I called the
pylon is his mysterious rotating structure. Check it out at
http://www.serve.com/mahood/RCS/tejon.htm

miso@sushi.com wrote:

I took an exploratory trip to the Northrup's Tejon Radar Cross Section
facility. These photos were done with a 400mm lens, so the quality
isn't the greatest. After looking at the satellite photos relative to
the location where I took the photographs, I should probably have
walked an extra mile, though it's hard to say as I was at the crest of
a hill. Generally the more elevated the air, the better the long
distance shot.

Main facility
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/tejon/tejoncrop.jpg

Pylon (I guess). This is nearly a full resolution scan.
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/tejon/tejonpylon.jpg
I'm not sure if that is the pylon itself, or that is a wing under test
on the pylon.

For a panoramic at half resolution, here is a jp2000 image. You will
need Irfanview with the jpeg2000 plug in.
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/tejon/tejonwide.jp2

http://www.irfanview.com/