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From: scott@swindle.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Airborne Radar
Keywords: AWACS
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:20:32 GMT
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From: scott@swindle.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
nak%archie@att.att.com (Neil A Kirby) writes:
|> Both.  Most tactical fighters can't possibly house a big antenna or the
|> high power gear to really light one up.

I've heard that if there are nearby aircraft, the AWACS shuts off it's 
  radar ... otherwise the pilots get cooked from the massive radiation output.
  Also, it's apparently dangerous to walk in front of a fighter operating it's
  radar on the ground for the same reasons.

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