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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819
The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. |
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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 -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Artic" wrote in message ldhosting.com... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. |
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In article , Brian Gaff
wrote: 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? Every heard of "window"? -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:10:03 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: 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? 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). |
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On 11/08/2013 09:01, charles wrote:
In article , Brian Gaff wrote: 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? Every heard of "window"? Ha! Foiled again. :-) -- Rod |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:26:02 +0100, polygonum wrote:
On 11/08/2013 09:01, charles wrote: In article , Brian Gaff wrote: 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? Every heard of "window"? Ha! Foiled again. :-) ..-) -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? |
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"Fredxx" wrote in message ... On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? AFAIK, just about any material will give a radar return, it's just that some are better than others. Many light aircraft and gliders have fibreglass parts, but are still visible to general surveillance radar. Arfa |
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On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Still you can't help but feel the Apache pictured might have a very quick and effective solution to dealing with such a problem ;-) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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In article , Arfa Daily
wrote: "Fredxx" wrote in message ... On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. This bizarre decision in Lancashi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-21701860 John M -- John Mulrooney NOTE Email address IS correct but might not be checked for a while. War does not determine who is right - only who is left |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:08:55 +0200, JTM wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. It's probably the military low flying and radar together with civil ATC radar that keep the dman things at bay around here. This bizarre decision in Lancashi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-21701860 "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. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 11/08/2013 09:06, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:10:03 +0100, "Brian Gaff" wrote: 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? 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). 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. |
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On 11/08/2013 14:26, John Rumm wrote:
On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Still you can't help but feel the Apache pictured might have a very quick and effective solution to dealing with such a problem ;-) A bit obvious. How about a night exercise for the students just a little way up the river. |
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On 11/08/13 12:57, Fredxx wrote:
On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? carbon fibre -- Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. |
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On 12/08/2013 14:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 11/08/13 12:57, Fredxx wrote: On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? carbon fibre Ah, perhaps if they were made of fibreglass their radar signature would be pretty minimal. |
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On 12/08/2013 15:24, Fredxx wrote:
On 12/08/2013 14:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 11/08/13 12:57, Fredxx wrote: On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? carbon fibre Ah, perhaps if they were made of fibreglass their radar signature would be pretty minimal. Along with their power output.... -- Chris |
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Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Thus telling the world were an important military air corridor is? -- *When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:57:23 +0100, Fredxx wrote:
On 11/08/2013 00:44, Artic wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819 The Navy have objected to a planned wind turbine in south Devon, saying it will affect a military radar. Aren't the blades made of fibreglass? A bit of carbon fibre and an absolute shed load of glass. -- |
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