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Air Traffic Control Radar Sets

Air traffic control radars are used both at civilian and military airports. Airborne radar is designed especially to meet the strict space and weight limitations that are necessary for all airborne equipment. Even so, airborne radar sets develop the same peak power as shipboard and shore-based sets. In fighter aircraft, the primary mission of a radar is to aid in the search, interception, and destruction of enemy aircraft.

En-Route Radar

„En Route” radars operates in L- Band mostly and displays radar data to controllers in the en route environment at a maximum range up to 450 km.

Air Surveillance Radar Sets

These radar equipment are used for the identification of aircrafts, determination of aircrafts approach sequence and for individual aircraft approach controls by Air Traffic Security operators. In mean time, these radars correlate the data obtained from other radar equipments such as Air Defence Radars or (excluding simple airfields) Mode-4 coordinate-datas of Secondary Radar equipment. These radar network could be used under all weather conditions.

Precision Approach Radar Sets

The precision approach radar guide aircraft to safe landing under conditions approaching zero visibility. By means of radar, aircraft are detected and observed during the final approach and landing sequence. Guidance information is supplied to the pilot in the form of verbal radio instructions, or to the automatic pilot (autopilot) in the form of pulsed control signals.

Surface Movement Radar ASDE

Surface Movement Radar (SMR) is the most widely used surveillance system for airport surveillance at present. SMR refers to primary radar that provide surveillance cover for the manoeuvring area, which is defined as that used for the take-off, landing and taxiing of aircraft, excluding aprons.

Weather Radar Sets

The weather data it finds could be used both for approach support and for feeding into the wider weather data concentration systems. The antenna rotation rate between systems is quite variable (3 to 6 rpm is common). Assuming multiple elevations are used, the weather picture gathered might be updated with a frequency of one minute and upwards (this depends on the complexity and number of the elevations required and the antenna rotation rate).

Radar in recent years has become an important tool for the measurement of precipitation and the detection of hazardous weather conditions.

Air- Defense Radar Sets

Air-Defense Radars can detect air targets and determine their position, course, and speed in a relatively large area. The maximum range of Air-Defense Radar can exceed 300 miles, and the bearing coverage is a complete 360-degree circle.

Air- Surveillance Radar Sets

Air-search radar systems initially detect and determine the position, course, and speed of air targets in a relatively large area. The maximum range of air-search radar can exceed 300 miles, and the bearing coverage is a complete 360-degree circle. Air-search radar systems are usually divided into two categories, based on the amount of position information supplied. Radar sets that provide only range and bearing information are referred to as two-dimensional, or 2D, radars. Radar sets that supply range, bearing, and height are called three-dimensional, or 3D, radars.

Battle Field Surveillance

The battle field surveillance radar mission is to alert and or cue combat troops of hostile and unknown aircraft, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, protect friendly forces from fratricide and provide air situational data to command and control centers.

Air- Policing

Another function of an air-search radar system is guiding combat air patrol (CAP) aircraft to a position suitable to intercept an enemy aircraft. In the case of aircraft control, the guidance information is obtained by the radar operator and passed to the aircraft by either voice radio or a computer link to the aircraft.

In fighter aircraft, the primary mission of a radar is to aid in the search, interception, and destruction of enemy aircraft. This requires that the air borne radar system have a tracking feature.

Missile Guidance Radar

A radar system that provides information used to guide a missile to a hostile target is called Guidance Radar. Missiles use radar to intercept targets in three basic ways:

1. Beam-rider missiles follow a beam of radar energy that is kept continuously pointed at the desired target;
2. homing missiles detect and home in on radar energy reflected from the target; the reflected energy is provided by a radar transmitter either in the missile or at the launch point and is detected by a receiver in the missile;
3. passive homing missiles home in on energy that is radiated by the target.

Battle Field Radar Sets

Radargeräte des Heeres haben meist eine kürzere Reichweite und sind für eine bestimmte Aufgabe stark spezialisiert. Auf Schiffen der Marine werden die Vielzahl von spezialisierten Radarantennen mehr und mehr durch ein Multifunktionsradar ersetzt.

Missiles Guidance and Control

The Patriot is an Army surface-to-air, mobile, air defense missile system. Since the mid-1960s, the system has evolved to defend against aircraft and cruise missiles, and more recently against short-range ballistic missiles.

Speed Gaughes

Speed gauges are very specialized CW-radars. A speed gauge uses the Doppler- frequency for measurement of the speed. Since the value of the Doppler- frequency depending of the wavelenth, these radar sets use a very high frequency in the K-Band.

Radar-Controlled Cruise Control

Here the radiator grille of a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class roadster, the Distronic sensor being hidden behind the Mercedes star. This future-oriented radar unit register the traffic scenario to a distance of up to 150 meters (500 feet) ahead and when necessary apply the brakes automatically.

Ground-Penetrating Radar

Ground penetrating radar is a geophysical method that has been developed over the past thirtyfive years for shallow, high-resolution, subsurface investigations of the earth.