Airborne fire control radars (FCRs) on fast strike aircraft are the quintessential pulse Doppler radars. They must work in a wide variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground modes, they must be lightweight and compact, yet they have to achieve long detection ranges in the presence of extreme clutter scenes and be capable of tracking a large number of agile targets, all of which must be highly automated, especially for single seat aircraft, to minimize the workload on the aircrew.

Chapter Contents:

• 16.1 Introduction
• 16.2 Setting the Scene
• 16.3 Medium PRF Mode

Inspec keywords: Doppler radar; aircraft; radar detection; airborne radar

Other keywords: air-to-air mode; airborne fire control radar; airborne FCR; fast strike aircraft; single-seat aircraft; air-to-ground mode; agile target; quintessential pulse Doppler radars; detection range; clutter scene; workload minimization

Subjects: Radar and radiowave systems (military and defence); Signal detection; Radar equipment, systems and applications