Probably but satellite transmission is probably only half of the trick, I would say possibly ground antenna transmission complements the detection process. So it is absolutely necessary to avoid Starlink service in the regions of interest to us. But this is just my guess.
How are you going to follow planes over cloud cover?
The point about cloud cover is valid but this is a sensor fusion game where you combine optic sensors and SAR, the latter of which is not affected by clouds. For example, you can even now use ESA's Sentinel-1 to get free SAR data if the optical Sentinel-2 suffers from cloud cover. You definitely don't need humongous antennae either. Modern SAR satellites like ICEYE and Capella have 3-5 meter deployable reflectors and still get 0.25–1 m resolution through clouds.
your answer reads like chatgpt. please use it as much as you desire(hell, i must be reading over 50 prompts daily) but don't paste it directly here. it is so obvious for the initiated. i already blocked a few people here for their incessant abuse(despite several warnings). i've never seen you doing it before. so please don't go that way.
I wasn't using chatgpt mate. I was told in the past I come across as formal but I never was accused of that specifically before.
this is wrong. you cannot have a LEO constellation that has more satellites passing over your region than other regions. what you can do, at most, is, like i said, launch your satellites to lower latitude(inclination) orbits so that you don't have to serve polar regions. but the satellites will visit Brazil as often as they visit Syria.
I don't want to veer off too much from the topic of the thread but I will give a final reply as you are either moving goalposts or honestly not understanding what I am saying. When I say "regional" I don't mean satellites that stay fixed above a region and don't pass over other regions. These LEO satellites still orbit around Earth and cover the whole latitude band but their revisit frequency is optimized for a certain region. You can do this with inclinations that skip the poles and clustering RAANs so the sats in the constellation visit the region one after another. You can even take images of the area from other orbits off-nadir depending on sensors you have onboard. In your example, even if the satellites overfly other regions (say Brazil), the constellation can still hit Syria reliably without significant gaps.this is wrong. you cannot have a LEO constellation that has more satellites passing over your region than other regions. what you can do, at most, is, like i said, launch your satellites to lower latitude(inclination) orbits so that you don't have to serve polar regions. but the satellites will visit Brazil as often as they visit Syria.
This is how a LEO constellation looks like. If we optimize it to use in our region, the top(highest inclination) satellites would not be included in our solution and serve only between, say, -50 and 50 degrees latitudes, which still wouldn't make sense to me as it would leave out Russia.
If you're not agreeing with this, please point me to a LEO constellation that has regional coverage and not global, and by regional I mean a specific area(like a country or continent), not an area covered between two latitudes.
Sentinel 1 Antenna is 0.821m x 12.3m. At 693km altitude for a 400km wide sweep it gives 40m x 40m resolution. For a 100km wide sweep you would get 20m x 20m resolution. For a 80km wide sweep the resolution increases to 5m x 5m. Originally developed to stop ship collisions; Sentinel-1 does this by receiving Automatic Identification Signals from ships directly. (I don’t think enemy will send signals to your satellite) . Due to its SAR capability it is also used in weather forecasting and terrain mapping. This is a civilian radar system with limited visit times. Revisit time could be 6-12 days.
Starlink is going to place 30thousand + satellites in space to give instant total coverage and no delay. At the moment their coverage is a bit sketchy and has to divert and redirect satellite angles to specific areas to provide continuous signal.
Agree on much of what you said. But if I may nitpick:
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Nope. Nothing new so far after the MoU that was signed in Idef. Detailing and finalizing the deal still can take a lot of time.
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Nothing on EF and talks that F-16 deal is essentially stopped.
Why?
These would take at least 5+ years to set up, create, integrate. There's no way the first 40 aircraft come with our own EW.
IFF, EW/ECM and local munitions integration can be done very quickly if the sort codes are accessed. But if UK will sell the ECRS-MK2 radar with the planes only local IFF system and munitions need to be integrated.
As far as I understand, we won’t be acquiring either the Eurofighter or the F-16V. Is there any news about the Özgür-2 modernization?
