Signals emanating from a nationwide forest of 5G cellular towers set for activation in the U.S. this week could interfere with radar altimeters , potentially causing them to report wildly inaccurate measurements of an aircraft’s height above the ground, aviation experts are warning.
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A related use of radar altimeter technology is terrain-following radar, which allows fighter bombers to fly at very low altitudes. The F-111s of the Royal Australian Air Force and the U.S. Air Force have a forward-looking, terrain-following radar (TFR) system connected via digital computer to their automatic pilots.
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