Submitted by scrublord123456 t3_yqly99 in askscience
frustrated_staff t1_ivrvp3f wrote
Reply to comment by Jon_Beveryman in How do plane radars see through the nose of the plane? by scrublord123456
>microwave-frequency
Radio frequency. It's in the name. RAdio Direction and Ranging.
Edit: I stand corrected. I looked it up, and although it may have started with just radio frequencies, it does indeed, now, use multiple frequency ranges, despite still being called radar (I also acknowledge I got the acronym wrong: it is indeed radio direction and ranging)
JaelPendragon t1_ivswedn wrote
Radars operate both in the microwave and radio frequency domains of the EM spectrum
Jon_Beveryman t1_ivuid2a wrote
Most aircraft radars that I am aware of are somewhere in the X to Ka band, about 7-40GHz, which is indeed right in the middle of the microwave range as commonly defined.
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