So, I just watched anothter old Steven Segal movie. It was entertaining, but formulaic. It was also alot like one of the old James Bond movies, where a killer satellite was in orbit armed with a laser, and controlled by a madman.
Now I know that hollywood’s interpretation of events is very loosley based on reality. But, would it be possible for military radars to track the turbulence created by an aircraft, as opposed to the aircraft itself? This was in the movie, and many weather radars can track even small turbulence, so it seems like it could be possible to develop.
I would think it was unlikely now, but who knows what the military may be working on. You’d have some big problems trying to distinguish aircraft wake from natural turbulence though and I think it would probably be easier to track the aircraft itself no matter how “stealthy” it is.
Which is why stealth aircraft take great pains to mix their exhaust with surrounding cooler air in an effort to reduce their heat trail down to the point where it is very difficult to detect.