Investigation of high frequency ship radar cross section reduction by means of shaping
By:  Dimitrios Kouteas
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 104
Description: The objective of this thesis is to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of ship radar crosssection (RCS) reduction in the high frequency (HF) band by means of shaping. The study is based on a computer simulation which uses the method of moments to compute the RCS of a number of conventional and shaped ship      geometries. It was found that a ship with canted deckhouse walls and a standard hull had little reduction in      RCS relative to a conventional ship. This result shows that shaping is not as effective at these frequencies (3-30 MHz) as it is in the optical region. The hull is the major contributor to RCS near broadside. Shaping the hull did reduce theRCS slightly for the frequencies and elevation angles investigated.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): David C. Jenn, David D. Cleary.

"September 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Applied Physics) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102).

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