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by mrdatawolf 978 days ago
I really liked the review and the general breakdown.

BUT one thing stuck out, because they were so forceful, is their opinion "The radar screens aren’t the spinning ‘sonar blip’ bullshit you get in a lot of games, movies, and animation." That is horseshit. I was a military radar tech in Japan (95-98) and '‘sonar blip’ bullshit screens' were still the primary ATC displays on at least some mainland bases.

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But that's old school tech, modern day solid state phased arrays are cheap now.
I see what you're saying, but his point seems to be, to me, that the "ACTUALLY!" crowd enjoy pooping on the display he's referring to as being something of an egregious anachronism, but in his experience (professionally and temporally relevant to the link discussed) that isn't the case.