{"id":188711,"date":"2010-08-08T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/08\/another-solution-to-limited-look-angles-of-aesa-radars\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:05:00","slug":"another-solution-to-limited-look-angles-of-aesa-radars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/08\/another-solution-to-limited-look-angles-of-aesa-radars\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Solution to Limited Look Angles of AESA Radars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"317\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_0JvBtbCURA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_0JvBtbCURA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"317\" width=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>One solution, which I have posted about before, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/gripen-ng-going-with-swash-plate-aesa.html\">swash plate radar<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/aesa-and-typhoon.html\">here<\/a>), and the Russians are looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/interesting-developments-for-su-35.html\">mounting an AESA Radar on a conventional (though likely beefed up) radar actuators<\/a>, and now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/farnborough\/?plckController=Blog&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;newspaperUserId=af81e61b-7188-4a72-8f39-d3869b7980c2&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3Aaf81e61b-7188-4a72-8f39-d3869b7980c2Post%3A3103f4cb-a0df-4040-b05e-765f1ab45199\">radar mount that uses two oblique rotary bearings<\/a>, rather like the 3 bearing nozzle on the STOVL version of the F-35 engine exhaust, to get off axis performance approaching that of conventional planar array radars.<\/p>\n<p>One of the advantages appears to be that it avoids antenna polarization issues, and another advantage would be that conventional connectors for power, signal, and cooling could be used.<\/p>\n<p>The original concept would have required slip rings and rotary fittings, which would likely have been maintenance headaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One solution, which I have posted about before, is the swash plate radar (also here), and the Russians are looking at mounting an AESA Radar on a conventional (though likely beefed up) radar actuators, and now we have radar mount that uses two oblique rotary bearings, rather like the 3 bearing nozzle on the STOVL &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}