Advantages and Disadvantages
Advocates of the technology cite the following advantages:
- Lower procurement cost
- Lower costs of operation and maintenance, due to the lack of transmitter and moving parts
- Covert operation, including no need for frequency allocations
- Physically small and hence easily deployed in places where conventional radars cannot be
- Capabilities against stealth aircraft due to the frequency bands and multistatic geometries employed
- Rapid updates, typically once a second
- Difficulty of jamming
- Resilience to anti-radiation missiles
Opponents of the technology cite the following disadvantages:
- Immaturity
- Reliance on third-party illuminators
- Complexity of deployment
- 2D operation
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