We present an innovative photonics-based, broadly tunable noise radar transceiver that exploits a digital feed-forward lasers noise referencing architecture both for removing the phase noise introduced by the free-running lasers exploited in the receiver stage, as well as for generating the reference signal used for range and velocity detection via cross-correlation with the received microwave radar returns. The transmitted microwave noise waveform is generated by simply heterodyning a broad-linewidth laser with a tunable local oscillator laser, avoiding the use of bulky RF arbitrary waveform generators and synthesizers, instead allowing the use of low cost, commercially available components with a small size, weight, and power footprint. Reconfigurable operation up to 50 GHz and a ranging resolution of 0.8 m is demonstrated, limited by the available laboratory equipment.