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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by joha4270 on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:17AM (#42522755)
Radar doesn't exactly tell you the size of of a contact. Sure, you can measure the power of the return signal, correct for distance and get something that loosely correlates with size. But it correlates much more strongly with other things.

You're also making the assumption here that it was a modern Russian system. This wasn't exactly close to the current fighting, its entirely possible this radar was manufactured in the Soviet Union. I don't think those receive a lot (or any) civilian broadcasts.

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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by cozzyd on Friday December 27, 2024 @12:00PM (#42523813)
Since Russia reduced Grozny to rubble relatively recently, it's probably not that old.
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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by joha4270 on Friday December 27, 2024 @12:46PM (#42524264)
Most A2A systems has wheels (or floats) and can thus easily be relocated. While it probably had good stuff once, I think all the high end equipment once located here has moved closer to Ukraine by now. What's left is probably the worst (human or technological) that's left.
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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers by justsomehnguy on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:21AM (#42523432)
> You're also making the assumption here that it was a modern Russian system

People do like to provide their very important opinion completely oblivious what Grozny is farther away from eg Crimea than Kiev.

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