Talk:Blip-to-scan ratio

A fact from Blip-to-scan ratio appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft?

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U2 shot down by aircraft?

Under the heading "Aircraft Projects", the following phrase concerns me: "Although interception proved difficult, it was only a matter of time before one of their aircraft "got lucky" and a U-2 was shot down." If this was referring to the Gary Powers U2 mission, he wasn't shot down by an aircraft but by a surface to air missile. The only other reference to a U2 being shot down was Rudolph Anderson's over Cuba in 1962. As yet I haven't been able to reference how, yet but I'd imagine it was also via surface to air missile. If these can be better referenced by someone then this sentence will need to be changed. Malloc 10:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I intended the statement to suggest that the Soviets would eventually get one of their interceptors into range for a kill, with enough practice. A MiG-19 in a zoom climb armed with long range rockets might just do the trick, for instance. That is what I meant by "their aircraft", although I guess that should have been more clear. Maury 16:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cold War

Outstanding explanation of relevant RADAR basics. Thanks for this. Didn't expect it here. One minor point though: The so-called "Cold War" periode is quite long and ends just after 1990. There are of course huge differences in RADAR technology between 1950 and 1990. Even Phased Array RADARs were availlible in the end ... even the Sowjet Union had them in their MiG-31 interceptors at one point. Such electronic RADAR systems with multiple beam ability and digital data processing have of course much more complicated features and limitations. A young reader of the current version of the article could remain under the impression that in the nineteen eighties we still had much more limited systems. So I suggest in some places to replace the vague term "Cold War" with more precise timing information, like a decade or i.e. "around 1965" or "during the Vietnam war". JB. --92.195.88.174 (talk) 21:58, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]