Simulation modelling and research of TBM trajectory detection

Detection of TBM (tactical ballistic missile) type targets by typical long-range search radars is very difficult and is sometimes impossible to carry out. It results from the fact that such radars are usually projected and constructed in order to detect targets of fighter class. Difficulties concerning TBM detections result from their higher than a fighter radial speed and their lower than a fighter radar cross section (RCS) value that fluctuations are very complicated. Signal processing algorithms relating radar echoes from TBMs in a radar with stacked beams for receiving are described in the paper. Moreover a simulation model of such echoes is considered here too. The presented research results should be treated as introductory. Among others they give information about their future optimisation possibilities.