Radar station with digital axisymmetric active phased antenna array as a promising direction for the development of surveillance radars
The purpose of the study was to build a surveillance radar station (radar) with an axisymmetric (i.e. cylindrical, conical, etc.), multibeam receiving-transmitting active phased array (APAR) and investigate its characteristics. The radar station makes it possible to shorten the surveillance time, increase the rate of updating information, provide flexibility in changing operating modes, increase the reliability and service life of a radar station as compared to a radar station with mechanical rotation of antenna systems. The radar station is compared with electronic circular scanning based on cylindrical, three- and tetrahedral APAR