A fascinating thing occurs when a fighter pilot realizes his aircraft is equipped with a radar. It’s on his second or third flight after being assigned to a fleet model while he’s cruising on some jet route in the sunshine, snug wrapped in canvas and fire resistant Nomex flipping switches he knows nothing about. Radars to him are lawn fixtures to get satellite cable, or just things rotating on control towers at airports. And why would an airplane even need to transmit anything in the first place?
