"We can take a
product like this to a place on the other side of the lakebed ...
range and set it up, so the aspect angles are the way we want them
to be when they drop the bombs. Then (the aircraft) will fly by and
drop a whole load of bombs, and this radar can actually see all the
individual bombs, see them spin, see the fins come out [and] the
whole works. That’s really where something like this
excels."
Source: Robert Selbrede, lead
engineer contractor for the Departure and Arrival safety system
radar facility at Edwards Air Force Base, commenting on the
capabilities of the system that has been designed and installed at
the base, and which was used to track the trajectory of
SpaceShipO