Talk:Radar

Alexander Popov

Alexander Popov died on 13 January 1906, so how could he have noticed what it says in the article in 1907?! 24.135.17.222 (talk) 19:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Wrong reading by IP, the text says 1897. Pierre cb (talk) 23:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Radar engineering details into Radar

wide overlap fgnievinski (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposition closed as nobody responded to it. Pierre cb (talk) 09:53, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Reopeining (WP:NODEADLINES). Radar engineering details appears to be an unusual article. I don't see what justifies its existence. ~Kvng (talk) 18:15, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

So advertise the proposed merge. So far nobody seems interested in the discussion, one way or the other. This seems to be a moot subject. Pierre cb (talk) 22:30, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Done ~Kvng (talk) 15:41, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

See additional discussion at Talk:Radar_engineering_details#"...details"_is_a_highly_unusual_name_for_a_Wikipedia_article. ~Kvng (talk) 13:58, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Closing, given the discussion there is stale and inconclusive. Klbrain (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

RADAR Equation is wrong

It doesn't even have the same units on both sides. Should probably be AtAr. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.79.211.189 (talk) 17:57, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

False, The IP do not know how to interpret. See reference équation 10.6 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/radar-equation). Pierre cb (talk) 22:12, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

I missed that sigma has area units, so I am wrong here. 104.187.53.82 (talk) 22:15, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Application in search and rescue

The article lacks any mention of applications in search and rescue. I added a section header but it was reverted by Pierre cb who presumably does not consider the subtopic relevant, but did not say why, so I open this for discussion, as I think it is relevant, and could be useful to the reader. Radar has important applications in maritime search and rescue, so there should be at minimum some mention and a link to an article covering it in more detail, and preferably a summary section or paragraph, but I do not have any verifiable information to add myself.

I also could not find any mention of target acquisition or radar guided weapons, which seems a bit odd as those are significant applications too. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 08:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I did say why (Remove empty useless section). It is not because I don't think it is relevant to talk about those subjects but you cannot put an empty section in an article. You must to at least put a paragraph describing what you are talking about. On the other hand, what you just wrote above does not need a separate section, just adding a paragraph in the section Radar#Applications is well enough. Pierre cb (talk) 13:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

missing categorization: anacronym

In the Wikipedia article on 'laser', it is explicitly mentioned that 'laser' is an anacronym. 'radar' is also an anacronym, and this phenomenon is spelled out, but the term 'anacronym' is not explicitly cited, but it ought to be. Kontribuanto (talk) 19:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

This is mention in the 3rd paragraph of the introduction: "The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for "radio detection and ranging".The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization." But I have added the term to the sentence. Pierre cb (talk) 23:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC)