RAF's new highly mobile LTR-25 ready to provide radar cover globally 

the army recently allowed beards

heh!

He's not a Sig, he's a RAAF poge.

@@wiperpaul How well do gas masks fit when you have a beard ?

@@cluckingbells just make em shave when they deploy.... not hard is it

RAF and Army allow beards a few years back!!!

either that or someone sniffing glue

Dead internet theory, a few real people and a few thousand bots

@@PhilipMcAuley-pt8dv😄

The way youtube works now is it promotes bot content and automatically deletes most comments made by actual humans.

@@PhilipMcAuley-pt8dvI hope it is super glue , they’re sniffing

is it really just the one unit? what happens when it needs maintenance?!

​@fToo when it was deployed at portreath it spent more time offline than actually working, it's a pile of .....

UK will have two by 2030... as long as Labour government does not cancel project.

@@chrissmith2114they won’t, they want to expand the military

NOT REQUIRED FOR UKAD!!!

Indeed under water defence pods loaded with drones located in choke points around the uk ....

@@wayneabel5421start doing it then 😢

@omegacrow4597 " not my job "

They'll get only 2

British MOD pay into the NATO AEW Fleet, so they can do UK cover if required. 144SU do the job that they did 35 years ago when I was on the unit at Wattisham. 1ACC is for OOA ops.

It’s new kit, no chance

They really don't, the ltr is a waste of space, it spent more time offline than working 😅

It's designed to be a gap filler, the main RAF long range radars are the TPS-177's of which there are five or six around the UK.

@@richardvernon317 Aren't these just surveillance radars? What about the tracking radars?

@@death_parade Tracking radars are for guiding surface to air missiles. RAF haven't had them for 20 years!! in fact if your SAM has a active homing head, you don't really need them.

@@richardvernon317 Thanks for info on RAF SAMs. I thought you guys had bought ground launched version of the CAMM. Is that with the Army then? Secondly, if your SAM missile has an active homing head, that head is still useless until the missile is within few tens of km of the target. To guide it until that point, the missile requires a firing solution before it is launched and needs mid-course updates to keep up with the maneuvering target. All this info can only be gathered by a tracking radar.

@@death_parade The first active homing SAM in the world, the IM-99 / CIM-10A Bomarc didn't have a tracking radar and it entered service in 1960!!! It had an active radar in the nose, an autopilot and a data link to the ground that told it where to fly and when to switch its radar on so that it could lock on to the target. The intercept geometry was computed on the ground by a digital electronic computer (The SAGE FSQ-7 which was all Valves and was the size of a football field) and target data came from multiple long range search radars. You could most likely use the data from this kit to provide guidance for a SAM in theory, its accuracy is most likely measured in metres, however in real life the target data has to go through multiple data links, encryption, decryption , processing at the Air Defence centre and modems before it gets to the missile fire control system. All of those 100's of milliseconds delays all add up. Also the large radar will have no low level coverage at range and AEW may not be available. The SAM battery will have a short range Surveillance radar with a maximum range that exceeds the range of the missiles it fires. This deals with the low level issue plus the data delays, plus target tracking and intercept geometry is done in the computer fitted in the missile fire control system using data from that radar. It will also be able to track the missiles by a beacon in the missiles or by the missile telling the computer where it thinks it is from its onboard navigation system. The lack of a tracking radar is a plus, as the target has no idea that it's under attack until the sensor in the nose of the missile lights up a few seconds before intercept. The NASAM system (Norwegian ground launched AMRAAM) and CAMM systems do not have a dedicated Tracker Radar, they have a dedicated surveillance radar. The only reason that the RAF had long range SAM in the first place was a bun fight between the RAF and the Army in the early 1950's. The Army were not prepared to put their GBAD assess under direct RAF Control. The RAF wanted this as the speed of upcoming bombers made integration of Fighter and GBAD command and control essential. The bun fight ended up landing on the Prime Ministers desk in 1952. Now Churchill had a lot of major flaws (the reason he never won the most votes in an election), but one thing he had done in his life was watch a major air battle in a control centre in real time and due to this he sided with the RAF. The RAF should have kept the SAM's (and provided defence for the Army in the Field) when it was decided that a single service would control all of the Rapiers in British service, however the Army complained that the Army had been cut to much and that they should get them.

Source?

I see these new trade job classifications and try to work out what they would have been 40+ years ago , even looking at the RAF website it's mind boggling 🤯 . I think my trade would now end in -(AV) , makes it sound like your a TV sales specialist at Currys 😄.

What's the max and min range of it? How long can it run off a generator? what's its max ceiling? what bands/ frequency does it operate on? Video gave nothing away apart from the fact we operate it which enemy intelligence will already know about.

Nothing here breaches Opsec 🤦🏻‍♂️

its an off the shelf radar you can literally google the specs