Truckspotters

[Curious Hound]

Found this in the parking lot at the training center at work, today. Ugh.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Found this in the parking lot at the training center at work, today. Ugh.

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I wonder what the radar or lidar signature is on those?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Found this in the parking lot at the training center at work, today. Ugh.

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Oliver saw his first one last night.

"what is that?"

"a Tesla truck, do you like it?"

"no, are you freaking kidding me?"

I wonder what the radar or lidar signature is on those?

Its a slab sided stainless steel brick. Its probably worse than most anything else on the road.

 

[Curious Hound]

I wonder what the radar or lidar signature is on those?

Probably not good. Too many huge flat surfaces pointed directly in the direction the radar would be coming from.

 

[Roert42]

Those things are so freaking big…

I think they are class 4a in PA. Over 8k lbs I think.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Those things are so freaking big…

I think they are class 4a in PA. Over 8k lbs I think.

Like 6800 I think, probably in 3/4 ton ballpark.

 

[JoshT]

I wonder what the radar or lidar signature is on those?

Well stealth is usually about making something have a smaller radar cross section. The stealth tech on an F-22 allegedly makes it look the size of a bumble bee. I'd imagine that the Cybertruck is probably the opposite of stealth, that thing probably has a radar cross section like an Airbus Beluga.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I was under the impression that unless a flat surface is facing directly at the radar gun, that it essentially disappears.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I was under the impression that unless a flat surface is facing directly at the radar gun, that it essentially disappears.

No, opposite of that. Otherwise every truck made before 1995ish would be stealth too. You want angles to scatter radar.

 

[Ramcharger90]

It was one of the Splash "concept" trucks. The "Sea Splash" and the "Sky Splash". Sea splash was beach, the concept included a surfboard IIRC. Sky Splash was more themed towards high adventure, and featured a hang glider.

The Sea Splash actually popped up for sale on here several years ago. Jim's got an article on the site about that whole fiasco.

Yeah, I remember. I saw the truck at Carlisle, I would have loved to have that truck. I wish some of these one off paint schemes would be offered by Ford every so often.

 

[JoshT]

I was under the impression that unless a flat surface is facing directly at the radar gun, that it essentially disappears.

Like 85 said, stealth is a lot more involved than that. It's something that was touched on back in aviation maintenance tech courses, but don't remember most of it. It's got a lot to do with scattering the reflections anywhere but back at the radar. There are also special paints that absorb rather than reflecting a lot of the radar signature.

Honestly I was mostly talking out my backside about that butt ugly whale of a truck. Those slab sides probably would give a nice sized radar signature though.

 

[SenorNoob]

Doesn't it emit along the same spectrum used on those detection systems? Should be lit up like a Christmas tree.

 

[RobbieD]

Found this in the parking lot at the training center at work, today. Ugh.

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He shoulda listened to his mama . . . .

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Stealth aircraft;

If slab sides light up like Xmas, then this plane wouldn't be stealth...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Stealth aircraft;

If slab sides light up like Xmas, then this plane wouldn't be stealth...

Does the radar dish shoot at it from above to catch those angles straight on like a cop with a radar gun on the side of the road checking the speed of a cyber truck?

If slab sided was stealth, forget all that malarky and just keep rolling with the slab sided B-52.