and significantly increases the potential for missed events and thus destroys mission credibility. The ECHO Range has the principal purpose of evaluating proposed EM penetration support equipment and procedures, and providing operational training and doctrine testing for tactical air force penetration against hostile air defense systems. Replicated environments are generated that interact with penetrating EM systems and control maneuvers and equipment operation for the testing and training purposes indicated. Time line critical events include signal detection, signal source recognition and mode analysis, and counteractive interaction events. The capability to detect specific signal characteristic changes is fundamental to the self-screening or standoff operations by penetrating aircraft. The facility includes an operational monitoring capability to score all events relating to the survivability of penetrating air craft, and the ’’kills” for ordnance delivery and air defense actions. Facility operations would also be impeded in range of coverage and event recognition because of the SPS power densities. The initial site analysis will present functional-operational time lines, with SPS induced functional and associated operational event compromises for mission envelopes. Geographic sensitivities will be indicated to support rectenna site modification recommendations. 4.1.7 Conclusions and Recommendations The preliminary assessment of SPS microwave emissions on victim systems as given here demonstrates the operational degradation that would occur to electronic systems in the SPS-generated environment within approximately 100 km of the rectenna site. The Mojave site evaluation shows a wide range of performance degradation, particularly in those systems operated by the military. The basic functional and operational impacts of SPS are of such magnitude that in many instances they represent unacceptable or impossible compromises and biases to proper test and evaluation exercises performed by the involved facilities.
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