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by mikeiz404 640 days ago
My guess is they are steering the radar beam from something hovering overhead.

The video links to a paper [1] titled "Airborne Circular W-Band SAR for Multiple Aspect Urban Site Monitoring" which mentions beam steering in the abstract.

1: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8701523/

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That's what I thought too, but how can there be such significant shadows? Wouldn't the shadows of any wavelength they are sending be near nothing?