Radar technology has become extremely important in today's world. They help guide the freighters which ship the electronics, clothing, and countless other products we use every day to our shores. They help meteorologists detect advanced weather patterns to produce the weather forecasts we see every morning on the news. Further, radar is used for: Air traffic control and navigation Military applications Astronomical and meteorological study Law enforcement purposes. (You can thank the radars in police radar guns for that speeding ticket you may have gotten.) Continually growing amounts of uses Clearly radar is important for many reasons. Here's a deeper look into what exactly radar technology is and what makes it so effective for many applications. What is RADAR and how does it work? In 1940, the US Navy developed the acronym “Radio Detection And Ranging”, or “RADAR”, as we know it today. Radar is a radio-wave based technology that is used for detecting physical object...