M3R AESA technology for Extended Air Defence

Author

Adrian, Odile

Author_Institution

Air Syst., Surface Radar, Thales, Limours

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper focus on the M3R active electronically steered antenna (AESA) system and will describe how this AESA is a step towards a fully digitized antenna with a receiver and an A/D-converter behind every antenna element and a full digital beam forming without using analogue sub arrays. First, it will be explained why extended air defence (that is Air and Missile Defence) requires a multi-function, multibeam radar technology; then M3R radar will be described and the M3R innovative antenna concept implemented in the M3R radar will be presented; The antenna system will be detailed showing the large contribution of the M3R programme to the Thales Building Block Product Policy. The final part shows how M3R antenna architecture is a step towards fully digital radar and multi-static operating mode.

Keywords

active antennas; array signal processing; military radar; radar antennas; radar signal processing; A-D-converter; AESA technology; M3R radar; Thales Building Block Product Policy; active electronically steered antenna; digital beamforming; digital radar; digitized antenna; extended air defence; multibeam radar technology; multistatic operating mode; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Missiles; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar tracking; Receiving antennas; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Target tracking; Adaptive array; digital radar; multi-static;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4720999

Filename

4720999