SABR Demonstrated Aboard F-16

// January 26th, 2010 // The plane

“Almost two years ago Northrop Grumman said that air forces of the future will necessarily gravitate toward using AESA technology”.

On Jan. 25, 2010 – Northrop Grumman Corporation, in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force, has successfully completed a series of demonstration flights of its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) installed in an F-16 fighter aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Look at the pics below the news, under “New SABR photographs” (you may see ones of the detailed terrain – NICE!):

http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/sabr/

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  • http://www.f-16.eu/ Raider

    testing disqus

  • WHIRLWIND

    RAIDER, WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “AESA” RADAR AND WHAT WE USE NOW IN F-16,S?

  • http://www.f-16.eu/ Raider

    Sorry WHIRLWIND, I've just noticed your question.
    You may google interesting info regarding AESA. Basics after Wikipedia:
    “An Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), also known as active phased array radar is a type of phased array radar whose transmitter and receiver functions are composed of numerous small solid-state transmit/receive (T/R) modules. AESAs aim their “beam” by broadcasting a number of different frequencies of coherent radio energy that interfere constructively at certain angles in front of the antenna. They improve on the older passive electronically scanned radars by spreading their broadcasts out across a band of frequencies, which makes it very difficult to detect over background noise. AESAs allow ships and aircraft to broadcast powerful radar signals while still remaining stealthy.”

    Also check out Northrop.

    Hope it helps.