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The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar.
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Aug 10, 2013
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Ah, so all an enenemy needs to do then is drop a lot of wind turbines near our coast and we will never see the big one coming. I thought secrets like this were kind of official? Brian
Every heard of "window"?
The dropping of wind turbines, albeit little tiddly ones, to degrade radar has long been in the public arena. See "chaff" and "window" (the aluminium foil rather than the double glazed variety).
Ha! Foiled again. :-)
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Aren't the blades made of fibreglass?
Still you can't help but feel the Apache pictured might have a very quick and effective solution to dealing with such a problem ;-)
This bizarre decision in Lancashire:
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John M
It's probably the military low flying and radar together with civil ATC radar that keep the dman things at bay around here.
"An MoD spokesman said: "Each wind turbine planning application is considered on its merits and assessed on a case by case basis.
"Every wind turbine planning application is subjected to a technical and operational assessment to determine if the proposed turbine(s) will have a detrimental effect on MoD assets and operations."
It does seem rather smelly. I hope the farmers are sniffing about for connections.
When I woz a lad the local market purveyors of all sorts of ex-WD hardware used to sell little rolls of aluminium foil (about the same size as modern pvc tape) which I have always assumed were "window". Gardeners used to use it as bird scarers.
A bit obvious. How about a night exercise for the students just a little way up the river.
carbon fibre
Ah, perhaps if they were made of fibreglass their radar signature would be pretty minimal.
Along with their power output....
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A bit of carbon fibre and an absolute shed load of glass.
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