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The causes of such spatial coherence degradation can be attributed to either complex multipath propagation or to mechanical deformations in the array itself. Optimally dealing with partial signal coherence typically requires modeling the array response as random, leading to complicated combining schemes to achieve optimal performance. The optimal detector is uniquely different than conventional detectors in that it involves both matrix combining and beamsteering of the matched-filter outputs. We show that the discrete Fourier transform can simultaneously serve as an asymptotically optimal spatial combiner and beamsteering tool for uniform linear arrays suffering from partial coherence. Simulation results show that the proposed combining scheme provides not only a significant gain in performance over conventional methods, but near-optimal performance at significantly less computation, even for arrays of modest size. 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