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Radio-Transparent Ceramics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

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The physico-technical properties and features of production of several radio-transparent ceramics are examined in connection with the tactical-technical characteristics of modern missile weaponry. It is convincingly shown that no single material can satisfy all of the requirements which missile radomes must meet under varying service conditions. An attempt is made to determine the levels that radome materials’ property indices must reach and to identify the technological, materials-science, and design problems that need to be addressed in order to significantly improve the tactical-technical characteristics of different missile systems.

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Suzdal’tsev, E.I. Radio-Transparent Ceramics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Refract Ind Ceram 55, 377–390 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11148-015-9731-6

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