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P.S. As told to me the story did not distinguish between "new" as in current model year and "new to me" so Al is headed in the right direction towards validation of my memory with facts. Thank you.

The Luneburg reminds me that at one point the U.S. Navy placed "something" on destroyers and destroyer escorts that made them appear to have a much larger RCS than they actually did. They were to be decoys in the event that a hostile weapon radar was looking for the aircraft carrier...
 

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Frono... I think I know what you are referring to. If it deployed and hovered we are talking about the same thing. Otherwise you may be referring to SLQ32 which is being updated by Raytheon's SEWIP Block III.
"Pivoting to the East"!

All this info is discussed in the AOC monthly magazine.

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So does anyone think their is a market for RCS reduction aftermarket products. It actually woukd make better sense if the sports car manufacturers considered that at the get go. I will bring that up to a friend GM executive during the Fall Penn State football season.

My thought is an add-on FSS tuned to the police radar frequency and shaped to deflect the wave away from the radar.

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So does anyone think their is a market for RCS reduction aftermarket products. It actually woukd make better sense if the sports car manufacturers considered that at the get go. I will bring that up to a friend GM executive during the Fall Penn State football season.

My thought is an add-on FSS tuned to the police radar frequency and shaped to deflect the wave away from the radar.

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There were actually some brainstorming sessions concerning counter-measures against police radars. It turns out that broadcasting on "police frequencies" which included the speed measurement radars was illegal. Thus there was no legitimate market for active counter-measures. The passive ones were "boring" in comparison and sometimes had side effects - weight and appearance - that degraded the car ownership appearance.
 

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The passive ones were "boring" in comparison and sometimes had side effects - weight and appearance - that degraded the car ownership appearance.

Not only that, but it'd only be useful as long as the freq spectrum(s) it's designed for are in use, and now in CA they're already using LIDAR to boot.
And for which there's already an aftermarket product called "Veil", an IR absorptive coating.
 

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So does anyone think their is a market for RCS reduction aftermarket products.
Based on the move to LIDAR, I'd say "No".
It actually would make better sense if the sports car manufacturers considered that at the get go. I will bring that up to a friend GM executive during the Fall Penn State football season.
I also suspect no auto manufacturer would want to advertise the use of "law-enforcement defeating technology", it's just bad PR.
Even the ones who use high-performance driving in their ads usually post a disclaimer for really extreme stuff, but implying "You can do this in our car without worrying about getting caught" is probably pushing the envelope just a wee bit too far, I think.
Might even affect police fleet sales. :glee:
 
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