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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)

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JaelPendragon t1_ivswedn wrote

Radars operate both in the microwave and radio frequency domains of the EM spectrum

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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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