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  • adjective military Preventing detection by radar.

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anti- +‎ radar

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Examples

  • A seaplane with an antiradar device landed and picked up a man from one of our speedboats.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • They suggested, too, that China had been helped by Israel, which sold China antiradar drones in the 1990s — to the fury of the Pentagon, which has since blocked the Israelis from providing upgrades.

    China Jeremy Page 2010

  • The night before, other F-l6s, the CG version, the new and somewhat downsized version of the F-4G Wild Weasel, had gone into China and struck at the line of border radar transmitters, hitting them with HARM antiradar missiles and knocking most of them off the air.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • In Ike's battle group, besides minor damage to the Gettysburg from an antiradar missile, the frigate John C Pauly had taken a half-ton warhead from a Kingfish amidships, while in CBG14 both the DDG Truesdale and the FFG Dickinson had been badly mauled.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • The first elements of the raid would start launching within the hour, and VAQ-143's Prowlers, armed with HARM and Tacit Rainbow antiradar missiles, would make their turn toward the Russian coast at 1715 hours, launching at stand-off distance to begin clearing the way for the squadrons to follow.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • Currently they are spending 1 billion dollars experimenting in the technology of the antiradar bomber, the stealth aircraft.

    LEADERS, VISITORS ADDRESS CDR CONGRESS 1981

  • Finally he'll call us and tell us he's sending one less ship than he is, leaving out the antiradar.

    World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

  • The bomb capacity of the giant Lancasters and Sterlings was increased ten tons; a special “pathfinder” force was developed to go ahead of the bombers to find and illuminate the targets; and a new antiradar device, code-named Window, was introduced.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • The bomb capacity of the giant Lancasters and Sterlings was increased ten tons; a special “pathfinder” force was developed to go ahead of the bombers to find and illuminate the targets; and a new antiradar device, code-named Window, was introduced.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • Hall had developed and fine-tuned antiradar technologies.

    Signs of the Times 2010

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