radar blip

radar blip

A generic term meaning variously a radar echo or radar response from an aircraft (ICAO). See echo.
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The air force took no action, saying the radar blip was not considered a security threat.
First lawsuit filed in Malaysia over MH370
The weapons officer of the Vincennes saw a radar blip headed straight toward his ship, and made a horrible mistake.
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They also said it had taken time to verify that the radar blip being tracked was indeed MH370 because its main automated signalling systems had been disabled.
Malaysia under scrutiny as plane mystery drags on
A certain number of points are needed to get favours from various NPCs you have met such as hiding your radar blip from other players or calling in an airstrike on a target.
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A radar blip or a dark and dusty museum; it's up to us to choose the eventual metaphor.
Two minutes to midnight
Thanks to its marketing ability, Tempur-Pedic has transformed the specialty-mattress category from a radar blip into the fastest-growing segment of the business.
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But, with a radar blip, TACAN lock, and three hours of gas, what was the hurry?
Stack the deck
US FIGHTER jets were scrambled and the White House was evacuated yesterday after a radar blip caused pandemonium.
Cheney flees a false alarm
It took analysts 12 minutes to identify the radar blip as harmless and order a stand-down of defences.
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Malaysian military radar continued to pick up the plane as a whole "paintskin" -- a radar blip that has no unique identifier -- until it traveled beyond the reach of radar, which is about 320 kilometers (200 miles) offshore, the official said.
Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked
Add to that the physical evidence, the radar blips, the still photographs, the cine footage, not to mention radiation, blast areas and other damage caused by alien landings, and the case for UFOs is proven beyond question.
In praise of Younis Khan

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