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Basically you deny enemy armor and other infantry support into the area you are working in, which means the infantry can't operate effectively in that area.
I'm not understanding. Let's say army A has a radar array of 500 relatively cheap radar stations. They clump them all into a 1 square km area. So now army Z drives some howitzers nearby (which aren't detectable by ground based radar), waits till a radar station turns on, the passively locates the radar base station, and shoots a cheap shell at it which destroys it.
But if you say army A has the level of military equipment that can locate and destroy howitzers up to 30 km away in all directions, then what benefit does an array of concentrated radar stations provide?
I don't know where you are getting this 1km cluster idea from.
The point of cheaper radar systems is that you don't need to defend them as much, because destroying them requires equipment that's more expensive than the radar station. They overlap, and the locating that they provide can both protect the stations themselves and other targets in their coverage area.
How are those tanks going to maneuver undetected without air support?
That's the topic of the thread your replying in. Quote:
Yeah... A few
Radars are already deployed like that. Most radars sit many kilometers from each other because of interference and not needing the extra coverage. Radar coverage is absolutely enormous for modern systems.