{"id":191295,"date":"2009-09-05T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/05\/tekhomirov-niip-aesa-radar-unveiled-for-pak-fa-the-dew-line\/"},"modified":"2009-09-05T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:08:00","slug":"tekhomirov-niip-aesa-radar-unveiled-for-pak-fa-the-dew-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/05\/tekhomirov-niip-aesa-radar-unveiled-for-pak-fa-the-dew-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekhomirov NIIP AESA radar unveiled for PAK-FA &#8211; The DEW Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img10.imageshack.us\/img10\/7995\/getassetg.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>So the Russians have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2009\/08\/tekhomirov-niip-aesa-radar-unv.html\">pulled the wraps off the Tikhomirov NIIP AESA radar intended for their next generation PAK-FA<\/a> (see also<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/28\/331563\/picture-russia-unveils-aesa-radar-for-pak-fa-fighter.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The video says that it&#8217;s 2m in diameter, which would make it a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">big <\/span>AESA array, but in the video, the model appears to be somewhere between 1 and 1.5 meters.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a bit bigger than the APG-77 radar, which might be a way to improve performance relative to that radar.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that the video shows some pitch and yaw on the array, which means that performance off bore sight should be pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>It should do a pretty good job, even if the tech of the T\/R modules is not as good, because antenna size tends to count for a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Video pr0n for those of you who speak Russian:<br \/><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JVpvZoKHT0s&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JVpvZoKHT0s&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Russians have now pulled the wraps off the Tikhomirov NIIP AESA radar intended for their next generation PAK-FA (see alsohere) The video says that it&#8217;s 2m in diameter, which would make it a big AESA array, but in the video, the model appears to be somewhere between 1 and 1.5 meters. This appears &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191295"}],"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=191295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}