Trouble Ahead for Military Radars at S-Band

[rangerrebew]

Trouble Ahead for Military Radars at S-Band
By Rebecca Grant
November 06, 2024
 
The U.S. military is heading for a big, new problem with its radars. To meet soaring demand for TikTok videos and other apps running on 5G, Congress is under pressure to sell off prime slices of the radio wave spectrum at a frequency location called S-band – thereby forcing military defense systems to cozy up and “share” with commercial wireless companies.

S-band radars are already part of the missile warning for Alaska and the new system in Hawaii. Guam’s enhanced 360-degree defense, now under construction, also depends on S-band. As threats grow, S-band radars will be integral to protecting the continental United States, too.

If Congress authorizes the FCC to sell licenses for the segments of S-band used by the military, the results could be catastrophic – and very costly to remedy.

Military radars have been integral to operations since early in World War II, and they’ve gotten better with each decade. Major types of military equipment use different frequency bands on the electromagnetic spectrum. High-power, low-frequency radars track distant objects. Shorter waves at higher frequencies take over for finesse tasks like fire control. All bands have their functions. C-Band is medium range, X-Band is for short range, Ku-Band is for close-in support, and so on.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/11/06/trouble_ahead_for_military_radars_at_s-band_1070271.html

[rangerrebew]

Good grief!!!!  Not more problems for the military!  I hope the administration has done a better job of planning for illegal immigrants!!!!

[DefiantMassRINO]

Those trillions spent nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq were well worth nothing.

[PeteS in CA]

Congress has been doing this @#$% for decades. The military gets assigned a section of the spectrum that is not currently commercially usable. The military spends the $$$$ to develop the technology to use it. That technology becomes commercially viable. Congress reASSigns that section of the spectrum to consumer products. Congress assigns to the military a section of the spectrum that is not currently commercially usable. Rinse and repeat ... rinse and repeat ... rinse and repeat ...