The clutter zone includes the littoral zone and terrain when operating on or near land.

A beam wide will illuminate millions of square feet of surface by the time the radar pulse reaches 10 mi. Targets are generally much smaller, so will be masked by clutter. Clutter reflections can create unwanted false targets.

The antenna for radar with no signal processing clutter-reduction improvement is not normally aimed near the ground to avoid overwhelming computers

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