Article: Studying health.(upgraded test facility at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico)

The U.S. Air Force will soon begin operation of an upgraded test facility that is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world able to conduct wide-bandwidth bistatic imaging and radar cross section measurements of full-size aircraft. Bistatic measurements are essential to understanding the stealth characteristics of military targets that use shaping as a primary approach to radar cross section reduction. The Bistatic Coherent Measurement Systems, or BICOMS, installed at an outdoor test facility at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, was designed by researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, for the U.S. Air Force.

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