SubscribeIn Air Defense, ThalesRaytheonSystems is active on the entire radar market. Every type of threat coming from the sky is covered: airplanes, helicopters, drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles...
TRS is also number 1 worldwide in the area of battlefield radar and leader, with 70% of the world market, in "weapon locating radar" whose range, altitude coverage and accuracy are in continuous improvement.
Master Family Air Defence Radar
Master T: Long Range Tactical 3D Surveillance Radar
Carry, unfold, watch:
Master-T is a robust, tactical 3D radar designed for air surveillance and air defense roles. Packed in two 20-foot ISO parcels, Master-T is transportable by road (10-ton vehicles), air (C-l30H), rail and sea and can be deployed on unprepared sites. Radar installation takes a maximum of 30 minutes with a crew of four. Ten minutes later, two high-definition color displays in the radar cabin provide a precise 3D air picture out to more than 440 km with 360° coverage.
Peace of mind:
Technology and fault- tolerant architecture ensure high operational availability. Mean time between critical failures exceeds 1,500 hours. So logistic support is drastically reduced.
Tough on the enemy:
High mobility and low infrared and electromagnetic signatures ensure high system survivability even under the worst active jamming, chaff and clutter conditions. Threat assessment is enhanced by the Master-T raid analysis function as a further guarantee of successful air operations and continued airspace control.
Features:
- S-band
- Large operating bandwidth: 400 MHz
- Fully solid-state
- Transmission of plots and/or tracks to remote centers
- Accommodates all kinds of protocols and formatted messages
Operational use:
- Unattended
- Stand-alone within co-located C2 facility
- Integrated in an Air Command and Control network
Detection domain:
- Instrumented range: 445 km
- Minimum detection range: 8 km
- Ceiling: up to 100,000 feet
- Elevation coverage: 20°
- Range (small aircraft): 390 km
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range: 30 m / 200 m
- Azimuth: 0.3°/ 3°
- Height: 2,000 feet at 100 Nm
Transportability (land, sea and air):
- One 20-foot ISO standard container and One 20-foot ISO platform
- Two 10-ton trucks
- Aircraft (C-130 type)
IFF System
- Co-mounted secondary antenna
- Modes: 1, 2, 3/ A, C, Secure
Miscellaneous:
- MTBCF > 1,500 hours
- Availability > 99,9 %
Master M: Long Range Infrastructure 3D Surveillance Radar
Far-reaching:
Safeguarding airspace sovereignty requires a ground infrastructure that no enemy can penetrate. For a timely response, a threat needs to be detected well in advance. With its extended range capability, the Master-M 3D radar is specially designed to meet infrastructure requirements.
Far-sighted:
In a world where threats are constantly evolving and growing more complex, radar systems must be designed to adapt to new requirements throughout their 20-years-plus lifetime. The Master radars are designed under the Pre-Planned Product improvement (P3I) concept. New add-on equipment and options can be procured progressively while guaranteeing effectiveness throughout the system’ s life cycle.
Master-M, the cornerstone of your Air Defense:
Available in both fixed and mobile configurations, Master-M is a particularly versatile product, designed to be equally successful for backbone infrastructure as for force projection operations. Sharing a common core of standard hardware, software and tooling with all the members of the Master radar family, Master-M combines a guaranteed top-quality service with low life-cycle costs.
Features:
- S-band
- Large operating bandwidth: 400 MHz
- Fully solid-state
- Transmission of plots and / or tracks to remote centers
- Accommodates all kinds of protocols and formatted messages
Operational use:
- Unattended
- Stand-alone within co-located C2 facility
- Backbone infrastructure integrated in an Air Command and Control network
Detection envelope:
- Instrumented range: 470 km
- Ceiling: 100,000 ft
- Elevation coverage: 20°
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range: 30 m / 200 m
- Azimuth: 0.3°/ 3°
- Height: 1,500 ft at 100 Nm
IFF System
- Co-mounted secondary antenna
- Modes: 1, 2, 3/ A, C, Secure
- Fully solid state
Transportability (land, sea and air):
- Four 20-foot ISO compatible containers and one 20-foot ISO platform
- Four 10-ton trucks + one 20- ton trailer
- Aircraft (C-130 type)
Deployment
- Assembly / disassembly : 2 hours / 10 people
Miscellaneous:
- MTBCF > 1,500 hours
- Availability > 99,9 %
Master A: 3D Multifunction Air Defence Radar
New threats, new requirements:
Every sovereign nation shall prepare to cope with the global military capabilities that will be prevalent in the coming years: the likely spread of ballistic missiles and sophisticated air breathing weapons such as high- maneuvering aircraft, UAVs or cruise missiles.
Securing your future:
Conventional Air Command & Control Systems fit with conventional threat. With its unique features, MASTER-A is specifically designed to enhance existing systems and make them effective against all these emerging threats. Master-A will guide your first steps toward the rising world of Extended Air Defense.
Features:
- Electronic scanning in azimuth (+/- 40°) and elevation (0 to 60°)
- Data rate : 4 seconds (rotating model) / up to 0,1 second (staring mode, antenna stopped)
- S-band
- Large operating bandwith : 400 Mhz
- Fully solid-state T/R modules
Operational use:
- Unattended
- Stand-alone with co-located C2 facility
- Backbone integrated in air operation network
Detection envelope:
- Instrumented range : Surveillance : 300 km
- Tracking : 370 km
- Ceiling : up to 80,000 ft (surveillance)
- Elevation coverage : 60°
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range : normal resolution : 30m / 220m
high resolution : better than 50m - Azimuth : up to 0,1 (high precision)
- Height : 1,700 ft at 100 Nm (high precision)
Transportability (land, sea and air):
- Three 20-foot ISO containers and one 20-foot ISO platform
- Three 10-ton trucks + one 20-ton trailer
- Aircraft (c-130 type)
Deployment:
- Assembly / disassembly : 90 minutes / 8 people
Miscellaneous:
- MTBCF > 1,100 hours
(Mean Time Between Critical Failures) - Availability > 99,9 %
Master S: Intermediate Range Tactical 3D Surveillance Air Defence Radar
Facing skimming threats:
Increasingly, modern air threats rush in at a very low altitude. Cruise missiles, UAV, attack helicopters and fighters with advanced terrain avoidance systems are designed to strike at the heart of your defenses. Often they are masked from the main long-range surveillance radar. To face the threat, defenders shall detect, locate, track and evaluate all incoming targets, down to edge hopping, even with heavy ground clutter.
To serve and survive:
To fill gaps in coverage and provide timely threat warning, Master-S is the ideal solution. With its single 20-foot ISO package, Master-S can be transported by aircraft (C-130), helicopter (CH47) or any 10-ton class all-terrain truck. Time to deploy does not exceed half an hour and within few minutes, surveillance is effective. Advanced design features including a low-peak-power distributed solid-state transmitter and an ultra-low-sidelobes antenna, make Master-S a highly survivable radar – as hard to jam as it is to detect.
Master S, your devoted servant:
As a stand-alone system or connected to a radar network, Master-S provides totally secure air surveillance for a broad range of operational requirements:
- Gap-filler within an air surveillance network,
- Key point or area defense
- SRE (Search & Rescue Equipment) or Airbase surveillance.
Features:
- S-band
- Large operating bandwidth: 400 MHz
- Fully solid-state
- Complete remote control capability
Detection envelope:
- Instrumented range: 200 km
- Ceiling: up to 30,000 feet
- Elevation coverage: up to 45°
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range: 30 m / 300 m
- Azimuth: 0.2°/ 3,5°
- Height: 1,500 feet at 100 km
Transportability:
- One 10-ton truck
- One C-130 lift
Deployment:
- Unprepared site
- Assembly / Disassembly : 30 minutes / 4 people
Miscellaneous:
- MTBCF > 1,200 hours
- Availability > 99,7 %
Master M3R Extended Air Defence Radar
M3R is ThalesRaytheonSystems answer to long-range radar sensors for Extended Air Defense (EAD).
The active antenna, which electronically scans in azimuth and elevation, is characterized by the high density of its radiating power (nearly ten times more than traditional radar), fulfilling the requirements for the detection of ballistic missiles at long range, as well as high mobility required in using the system to back up forces in an operations theater.
The multi-beam processing, combined with Digital Beam Forming, provides unique performance in terms of detecting targets of small radar cross section in an environment of severe clutter and jamming.
Features:
Multifunction Radar with Azimuth & Elevation electronic scanning
- Rotating antenna mode for 360° surveillance & tracking
- Staring antenna mode for sector surveillance and tracking (TBM Defense mode)
For 3D Long-Range Air Defense and Extended Air Defense (Ballistic Missile Defense):
- NATO class 1 ( deployable Radar) range / coverage for classical Air Defense in rotating antenna mode
- Detection and tracking of TBM's up to 600 km range (1000 km with external cueing) in staring antenna mode (fence mode)
Fixed or Deployable Radar:
- Deployable configuration : 5 ISO 20' loads; each less than 8 tons weight
- Fits on 3 trucks and 2 trailers
- Encamp / Decamp time: less than 2 hours
Using State of the Art, S band, Active Module technology:
- Fully distributed, 100 w peak output, GaAs, Transmit / Receive Active Modules
- Packed in 8 modules LRU's ("Octopacks")
- Modular Antenna concept with N (N to be tailored for application) Blocks of 8 Octopacks each
- Providing the high density of power per unit antenna surface required for TBMD applications (and mobility)
- Providing high Reliability / Availability and graceful degradation
Specification:
- 470 km instrumented range in 360° (rotating antenna) Air Defense Mode
- 1,000 km instrumented range in sector (staring antenna) TBMD mode
- 45° Azimuth coverage in sector mode
- Tracking up to 85° in elevation
- Launch Point Estimation and Impact Point / Time Prediction for TBM's
- State of the Art Anti Jamming ( OLS / ADBF, LJF,...)
- Clutter map / CFAR
- Secondary Radar
- Remote operation capability and standard links with external C3 units.
Weapon Location Radars
AN/TPQ-36: Firefinder Weapon Locating System
Medium-Range Surveillance:
ThalesRaytheonSystems’ compact, mobile, combat proven AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar accurately, rapidly, and automatically locates medium-range enemy mortars, artillery, and rocket launchers. It can handle simultaneous fire from weapons at multiple locations, detecting and reporting their positions on the first round. No longer must front-line troops and armor be exposed to long periods of enemy mortar, artillery, and rocket attacks. The AN/TPQ-36 directs accurate counterfire to neutralize enemy positions.
The AN/TPQ-36’s automatic detection, tracking, and locating process is so fast that an enemy weapon’s position can often be pinpointed before its projectile impacts. Locations are automatically corrected for altitude differences, using computer-stored digital maps, and presented to the operator in northing, easting, and altitude coordinates. The system is so automatic and simple to operate that, once set up, the operator need not be present in the operation control shelter to determine a weapon’s location.
Rounds from friendly weapons also can be tracked, for more accurate delivery.
Defeats Enemy Firepower, Supports Friendly Weapons:
The AN/TPQ-36’s stationary antenna sweeps a rapid sequence of beams along the horizon, forming an electronic radar curtain over a 90º area. Any target penetrating the curtain triggers an immediate verification beam. On verification, an automatic tracking sequence begins.
While tracking any single target, the radar continues scanning, locating, and tracking others. The AN/TPQ-36 can detect and report the positions of up to 10 different weapons in seconds, at a maximum range of 24 km. The system also corrects and improves the delivery of friendly fire.
Signal and data processors test each track to filter out birds, aircraft, and other unwanted returns, giving the AN/TPQ-36 an extremely low false-location rate and a very high probability of location. Once the computer establishes a target’s validity, it smooths the measured track data, deriving a trajectory that it extrapolates to establish the target’s firing position and impact location. Those data are displayed on a visual map and printed out in map coordinates.
From the operation control shelter, the power-driven antenna can be tilted or rotated to any azimuth position. The system also offers a 360º sectoring mode, in which it will search one sector for a short period, then automatically rotate in turn to the other sectors.
Highly Mobile:
Compact and highly mobile, the AN/TPQ-36 supports rapid deployment of forces and close combat. It can be positioned and ready for operation in 15 minutes. It can be readied for movement in 5 minutes by a five-man crew.
Because it can move quickly from one position to another, it is typically located close to the forward battle line in direct support of brigade operations.
The AN/TPQ-36 comprises an antenna-transceiver trailer, a generator, and an operation control shelter that contains processing equipment, the weapon-locating unit, and communications equipment. For the U.S. Army, the 2,500-lb shelter is carried on a HMMWV or a 2.5-ton truck; however, it can also be carried by other tactical vehicles. The manned operation control shelter can be located as far as 50 m away from the unmanned antenna trailer.
Exceptionally Reliable:
With high system reliability and maintainability simplified by computer-controlled, built-in test equipment, ThalesRaytheonSystems’ AN/TPQ-36 provides unusually high system availability. On-line fault detection and off-line fault diagnostics alert the operator to system faults, directing repair action to the unit that must be replaced. Ninety percent of all repairs required in the field can be performed by the crew, with a mean-time-to-repair of only 30 minutes.
The AN/TPQ-36’s cost effectiveness is enhanced by its 90º–360º sector, small crew, ease of operation, and high availability. The operation control shelter can be used interchangeably, with either the AN/TPQ-36 or the longerrange AN/TPQ-37, with only a software change, thereby providing operational flexibility and much greater life-cycle cost effectiveness.
Capabilities:
- Locates mortars, artillery and rocket launchers
- Locates 10 weapons simultaneously
- Locates targets on first round
- Performs high-burst, datum-plane and impact registrations
- Adjusts friendly fire
- Interfaces with tactical fire
- Predicts impact of hostile projectiles
Specifications:
- Maximum range : 24 km
- Effective range : Artillery : 18 km
- Rockets : 24 km
- Azimuth sector : 90°
- Frequency : X-band, 32 frequencies
- Prime power : 115/200 VAC, 400 Hz, 3-phase, 8kW
- Peak Transmitted power : 23 kW, min.
Features:
- Permanent storage for 99 targets
- Field exercise mode
- Digital data interface
AN/TPQ-37: Firefinder Weapon Locating System
Long-Range Surveillance:
ThalesRaytheonSystems’ combat-proven AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder is the first radar capable of quickly locating long-range mortars, artillery, and rocket launchers, even beyond those weapons’ maximum effective ranges. After tracking a shell for only a few seconds, the AN/TPQ-37 weapon-locating radar can determine its point of origin. During a barrage - when myriad rockets and artillery shells are in the air - the radar pinpoints large numbers of enemy weapons and quickly relays precise location information for counterfire.
Defeats Enemy Firepower, Supports Friendly Weapons:
The AN/TPQ-37’s stationary antenna sweeps a rapid sequence of beams along the horizon, forming an electronic radar curtain over a 90º area. Any target penetrating the curtain triggers an immediate verification beam. On verification, an automatic tracking sequence begins.
While tracking any single target, the radar continues scanning, locating and tracking others. The AN/TPQ-37 can locate up to 10 different weapons in seconds, at a maximum range of 50 km. When long-range surface-to-surface missiles must be located, a special 60º sector mode extends the AN/TPQ-37’s range. Friendly fire can then neutralize further fire from those weapons.
The AN/TPQ-37 also tracks, corrects, and improves the fire of friendly weapons with registration and adjustment data. It also identifies the impact location of hostile projectiles, allowing counterfire on highest priority targets.
Highly Mobile:
Like the smaller AN/TPQ-36 weapon-locating radar, the AN/TPQ-37 is highly mobile. The entire system can be setup or taken down and moved in minutes by a small crew. Its operation control shelter can be transported on a vehicle as small as a High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle - HMMWV.
The U.S. Army combines the AN/TPQ-37 with the AN/TPQ-36 to field an exceptionally accurate and mobile Firefinder weapon-locating system. The AN/TPQ-36 would be deployed near the battle line, with the AN/TPQ-37 farther back in friendly territory
Powerful:
Artillery rounds are more difficult for radar to detect than mortar rounds, which have higher reflectivity and more vertical trajectories. The low radar cross-section of the artillery shell means higher power is required to detect it at long ranges, and extensively refined discriminants must be applied throughout the tracking process to achieve a high probability of location and an extremely low false-location rate.
Both the AN/TPQ-36 and -37 have high-performance clutter rejection, enabling them to pick up targets out of ground or sky clutter. In both areas, the AN/TPQ-37 is optimal for locating long-range mortar, artillery, and rocket projectiles.
Exceptionally Reliable:
ThalesRaytheonSystems’ Firefinder systems are designed to achieve high system availability, with 90 percent of all repairs being performed in the field. Mean-time-to-repair is 30 minutes.
The system features both off- and on-line diagnostic hardware, built-in test equipment, and automatic fault isolation to the replaceable unit level. When the diagnostics are operating off-line, the computer injects test signals and monitors the resulting functions. When operating on-line, a continuous automatic program runs system tests. In the event of failure, the computer performs fault isolation and prints out the problem description and remedial action.
The result is a system of exceptional availability with reduced maintenance costs and downtime, because most repairs can be done quickly in the field.
Block I Program Upgrades:
Under the Firefinder Block I program, ThalesRaytheonSystems designed, developed, qualified, integrated, documented, and supported reliability and performance improvements to the AN/TPQ-37 radar.
The upgrades facilitate radar loading and unloading on C-130 and C-141 aircraft, provide self-survey capability, and add a tracked suspension system.
Capabilities:
- Locates mortars, artillery, rocket launchers and missiles
- Locates 10 weapons simultaneously
- Locates targets on first round
- Performs high-burst, datum-plane and impact registrations
- Adjusts friendly fire
- Interfaces with tactical fire
- Predicts impact of hostile projectiles
Specifications:
- Maximum range : 50 km
- Effective range : Artillery : 30 km
- Rockets : 50 km
- Azimuth sector : 90°
- Frequency : S-band, 15 frequencies
- Prime power : 115/200 VAC, 400 Hz, 3-phase, 43 kW
- Peak transmitted power : 120 kW, min.
Features:
- Permanent storage for 99 targets
- Field exercise mode
- Digital data interface
PBS2: Firefinder Weapons Locating System
State-of-the-Art Radar
The PBS 2 (Phoenix Battlefield Sensor System) Firefinder long-range weapon-locating radar system, being developed by ThalesRaytheonSystems, will significantly increase system range and accuracy in an integrated targeting structure. As a successor to the proven AN/TPQ-37, the new Firefinder will be a longer-range, more survivable radar that requires less manpower to transport, set up, and maintain. It will enable crews to more rapidly detect, locate and neutralize enemy long-range weapons. ThalesRaytheonSystems's Battlefield Radar unit is leading the PBS 2 program. Other members of the team are TRW, Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation and Tobyhanna Army Depot.
Advanced Capabilities
ThalesRaytheonSystems's PBS 2 Firefinder will meet or exceed the range and accuracy requirements for all classes of threats. Full range and accuracy performance will be maintained up to the maximum track loading. Building on 25 years of experience, the system will produce no more than one false location in 12 hours of operation. It will employ a search-then-track design and allow growth to future operational modes. Targets will be classified by type. The new Firefinder radar will also incorporate improved automation, allowing for a significant reduction in crew size from 12 to 9.
Improved Detection/Targeting
By replacing the antenna transceiver group (ATG), the PBS 2 will double the range for detecting incoming fire from artillery and improve targeting capability for counter-battery fire.
In addition to artillery, it will detect mortars, rockets and tactical ballistic missiles.
The radar will incorporate interoperability with the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) software to ensure rapid counterfire. It will leverage off the electronics upgrade program for the shorter-range AN/TPQ-36(V) 8 Firefinder.
Superior Mobility
The new Firefinder Radar is configured for superior mobility and transportability for a force projection army. The mission essential package, including the ATG, will be mounted on a trailer and towed by a 2.5 ton light/medium-tactical-vehicle prime mover carrying a standard 60-kW tactical quiet generator.
The PBS 2 is designed to drive on/off a C-130 aircraft for ease of transport and rapid deployment. Mission-essential equipment can be transported in a single C-130 sortie or by multiple CH-47 helicopter lifts.
A nine-person crew can emplace or displace the entire system in the required time.
Easy Maintenance, Higher System Availability
Adapting to force structure reductions and faster tempo of operations, The ThalesRaytheonSystems design employs state-of-the-art technologies for maximum supportability and sustainability. The modular, field-repairable design will minimize downtime and maintain a high system operational availability. It incorporates self-calibrating antenna modules that are field repairable without depot recalibration.
Most required maintenance tasks will be done at the unit level. Maintenance activities will be supported by online-accessible Level 4 Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals.
The new PBS 2 Firefinder weapon-locating system brings to the 21st century soldier a rapidly deployable, mobile radar, providing an accurate means of acquiring, pinpointing and relaying data needed to silence the threats facing our forces.
Capabilities:
- Locates mortars, artillery, rockets and missiles
- Identifies boosting projectiles
- Locates targets on first round
- Classifies weapons by type
- Transport
- Single C-130 sortie (mission essential equipment)
- Multiple CH-47 helicopter lifts - Emplacement : 15 min
- False location rate : Maximum of one in 12hr
Specifications:
- Maximum range : 400 km
- Effective range : Mortars : 30 km
- Artillery : 60 km
- Rockets : 100 km
- Tactical Ballistic Missiles : 300 km
- Azimuth sector : 90°
- Frequency : S-band
- Prime power : 115/200 VAC, 400 Hz, 3-phase, 60kW
Features:
- AFATDS interface
- Air cooled
- Crew of nine
- Modular design, allowing growth to new technologies
- Use of Army standard computers, trucks and generators
- Meets the needs of the future Brigade Combat Team
Battlefield Air Surveillance Radars
GERFAUT: Short Range Battlefield Radar Surveillance Family
To protect...
Designed for surveillance, early warning, target acquisition and designation for SHORADS and VSHORADS, the radars of the Gerfaut family are most helpful everywhere on the battlefield. They support battle corps anti- aircraft defense, provide alert to mobile troops, protect vital assets and key points against air threats. Fielded in several countries within different systems, the Gerfaut has a proven capacity to detect and classify on the move, any threat, including hovering helicopters, up to 30 km away.
...And serve
The modular design, compactness and light weight make the Gerfaut easy to install on various types of vehicles. More than 200 units have been sold over the world already and are on duty in the most stringent climatic and mechanical battlefield environments.
Features:
- S-band
- Large operating bandwith
- Fully solid-state
Operational use:
- Surveillance
- Early warning
- Target designation
Detection envelope:
- Instrumented range : up to 14 to 30 km
- Ceiling : up to 5 km
- Data refresh rate : 1.5 per second
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range : 25 m
- Azimuth : 7 mrad
IFF System:
- Built-in IFF antenna
- Integrated IFF management
Transportability:
- Can be fitted on all battlefield vehicles
Miscellaneous:
- Target classification - fixed wing aircraft - helicopters
- MTBCF > 1,850 hours
(Mean Time Between Critical Failures)
AN/MPQ 64 Sentinel
The U.S. Army’s Next Generation Tactical Air Defense Sensor:
The AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel is a three-dimensional, phased-array system that operates in the X-band to automatically detect, track, identify, classify, and report airborne threats, including helicopters, high-speed attack aircraft, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles. This surveillance radar detects and tracks threat aircraft at several times the range of short-range weapons, providing early warning to ground crews and supporting maximum-range engagement of threats. Worldwide requirements for the Sentinel are in excess of 200 systems, with more than 100 delivered or in production. A preplanned product improvement program is underway which provides an 80% increase in radar detection range.
Integrated Battlefield Management:
Sentinel command posts activate weapon control orders and provide target-weapon pairing. The Sentinel configuration also allows weapons, radars, and command posts to operate from widely dispersed battlefield positions. Sentinel provides alerting and cueing of targets to a variety of weapons, including Hawk, Surface Launched AMRAAM, Stinger, antiaircraft guns, and other SHORAD/VSHORAD-class weapons.
Troop Protection:
Accurate and quick reacting, Sentinel acquires targets far enough from friendly forces to allow sufficient reaction time for their air defense weapons to engage the targets at optimal range. The system also includes an integrated identification friend or foe (IFF) capability that helps prevent fratricide.
Radar Type:
- X-band
- 3-dimensional pencil beam
- Range-gated pulse Doppler
- Phase and frequency scanning
- 30 rpm with electronic back-scan
Secondary Radar:
- AN/TPX-56 IFF
Track Selector:
- Elevation : -10° to +55°
- Azimuth : 360°
Range:
- Up to 75 km
Surveillance Sector:
- Elevation : 22°, selectable within -10° to +55°
- Adjustable horizon mask from digital terrain data base
- Azimuth : 360°
Battlefield Management:
- Alerting (time to prepare to engage)
- Cueing (automatic weapon pointing)
- Battle management functions
- Aircraft identification
- Air picture recognition
- Airspace management
- Fratricide warning and management
- Recording of scenarios and battles
- Rules of engagement
- Situational awareness
- Target-weapon pairing
- Track correlation
- Weapon control orders
RAC 3D: Intermediate Range Tactical 3D Surveillance Radar
Detection:
The RAC 3D is a three dimensional, multi-mode, radar for the co-ordination of medium-range and short-range and very-short range Air Defense weapon systems. It provides a 3D air picture up to 100 km. Highly mobile and optimized for detecting low observable targets, the RAC 3D is capable of operating under the most severe weather, jamming and propagation conditions. The RAC 3D detects and classifies modern threats, including medium to very low-altitude hovering helicopters.
Co-ordination:
The defense of strategic sites, as well as the protection troops on the move requires a multi-layered Air Defense. Associated with its integrated Command and Control (C2), the RAC 3D operates as a multi-mission system fully interoperable with higher levels of command such as national Air Defense or allied networks. The RAC 3D system activates weapon control orders and provides target-weapon pairing to co-ordinate any mix of MSAM, SHORADS and VSHORADS. The RAC 3D can also be used as a gap-filler system for low altitude Air Defense.
Proven efficiency:
Currently in production, the RAC 3D equips Armies and Air Forces in a number of European countries. More than 50 systems are already fielded, and the RAC 3D has successfully participated in extensive NATO trials.
Features:
- C-band
- Large operating bandwith : 600 Mhz
Operational use:
- Unattended
- Networked or stand-alone with optional Advanced Weapon
- Control Post (AWCP) integrated in the radar shelter
Detection envelope:
- Instrumented range : 100 km
- Ceiling : up to 30.000 feet
- Elevation coverage : > 45°
Accuracy / Discrimination on combat aircraft:
- Range : 20m / 150m
- Azimuth : 0.4° / 4°
- Elevation : 0.5°
IFF System
- Co-mounted secondary radar
- Modes: 1, 2, 3/ A, C, Secure
- Fully solid-state
Transportability:
- One C-130 type aircraft
Deployment:
- Unprepared site
- Assembly / Disassembly : 15 minutes/ 2 people
Miscellaneous:
- Mast erected antenna up to 13 meters above ground level
