Future Surface Radar technology: From Air Defence to Air and Missile Defence

Author

Adrian, Odile

Author_Institution

THALES Air Syst. Surface Radar, Limours

fYear

2007

fDate

17-20 April 2007

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

This paper describes how Air Defence radars are evolving from general Air Defence missions (single-mission radar) to Air and Missile Defence missions (multi-mission radar) in order to cope with news threats for Homeland Defence and External Theatre Defence. After a description of the radar requirements for general Air Defense and Missile Defence, Missile Defence impacts on radar sensors are explained. It is shown that conventional Air Defence radar cannot completely meet at the same time both Air Defence and Missile Defence requirements. The present multi-mission, multifunction MASTER A developed by Thales is described. The final parts explain the Thales portfolio evolution from MASTER A to M3R and the related S Band product policy.

Keywords

defence industry; military radar; missiles; air defense; missile defense; multimission radar; radar sensors; single-mission radar; surface radar; Meteorological radar; Missiles; Radar antennas; Radar clutter; Radar measurements; Radar signal processing; Radar tracking; Spaceborne radar; Target tracking; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0284-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2007.374189

Filename

4250283