Would Superman show up on radar?

[robby]

@ivn1188

Define typical search radar? Most airport radars do not get skin paints, they just look for transponders. But in a general sense, radar is certainly able to detect things other than metal; radar altimeters reflect from ground features/water, weather radars look very closely at clouds.

I didn’t say that non-metallic objects would not reflect radar at all, just not well. Besides, you are comparing apples and oranges. Clouds and ground features are much larger than a person-sized object.

@ivn1188

…The Aegis system also has an incredibly powerful radar that would be more than capable of picking up a human sized radar return.

Probably true, but the Aegis system is a special case; it works both as a search radar and a fire control radar.

@Petrobey_Mavromihalis

The radar on a luxury yacht I was on could pick up swimmers in the water around it.

But not at any significant range.