CRESCENT ORBIT

Although rough terrain in Bosnia reduces some of the capability of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, Col. Joseph Stein, who commands the Joint STARS wing, says those terrain-masking problems can be mitigated by tactics. By switching from an elliptical orbit to a crescent-shaped...

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