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Old 18-June-2008, 02:38 PM
Larry Jacks Larry Jacks is offline
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It'd take a pretty sensitive radar to track a contrail on radar but it is possible. On a clear night, contrails can be easily seen by the naked eye, especially when the moon is bright. The whole point of stealth is to make detection as difficult as possible across the radar spectrum (radars operate on different frequencies), infrared, visible detection, and even acoustically if possible.
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