{"id":287131,"date":"2023-11-08T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287131"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:48:51","slug":"good-for-our-enemies-wind-turbines-scramble-the-air-force-radars-and-provide-cover-for-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287131","title":{"rendered":"Good for our enemies: Wind turbines scramble the Air Force radars, and provide cover for jets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blind spots caused by turbines pose a risk amid fears of Russian North Sea sabotage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Jo Nova<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Imagine you built hundreds of wind turbines off your coast and then found out they reflect the signals used by your air defense radar?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that large rotating blades reflect radar pulses rather like planes do, and with future offshore wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower<\/a> and 1,000 feet wide, things are only getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RAF pilots already use the turbines to help them hide in training exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK government has quietly spent \u00a318m to try to figure out how to stop this and the best they have come up with is coating the blades in the type of paint used on stealth fighter jets. But the paint on F-22 jets peels off a bit too often, so they are considering something like the new ceramic paint from the F-35 program. But since that\u2019s a top military secret,<\/a> presumably it won\u2019t be too<\/em> similar. What could possibly go wrong? Since you asked, last year, after just six months on aircraft carriers, the F-35s were already looking kind of rusty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just drive a truckload of money to your local wind subsidy farm. Other plans include adding cameras, microphones, and radio aerials to turbines to detect hostile jets or perhaps some naughty boats and subs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German military have asked to be able to veto any wind development within 50 kilometers of their military radars<\/a>. And given that it has 18 radars that could rule out a significant part of the German coast. The wind industry is not happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine you bet your national economy on building thousands more of these by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How wind turbines are blinding the RAF\u2019s vital North Sea radars<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Gareth Corfield, The Telegraph<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offshore wind farms blades interfere with radar signals and there are concerns that plans for a significant expansion of turbines in the North Sea by the end of the decade will cause problems for the Royal Air Force (RAF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dangers in the North Sea are more than theoretical: a \u201cghost fleet\u201d of Russian ships were spotted mapping communication and power cables<\/a> in the area earlier this year, sparking fears that the Kremlin is preparing for a campaign of sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some planned wind arrays are 20 miles wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A serving RAF officer explains: \u201cIf you have three blades on one turbine, that\u2019s three false reflections. Imagine you then put up 10 or 20 turbines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former RAF Tornado instructor Tim Davies recalls using offshore turbines to hide from \u2018enemy\u2019 fighter jets during training exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe used to fly into wind farms and rapidly change direction, knowing that their radar would struggle to see us,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just one more reason China and Russia are encouraging the West to build fields of giant industrial wind plants in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos:<\/strong>\u00a0Top wind farm (Rhyl Flats)\u00a0Andy Dingley<\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0 RAF Fighter jets photo by\u00a0Steve Richardson<\/a>; Gwynt y Mor wind farm,\u00a0Steve Daniels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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