{"id":195280,"date":"2008-07-19T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/moores-law-hits-aesa-radars\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:40:00","slug":"moores-law-hits-aesa-radars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/moores-law-hits-aesa-radars\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore&#8217;s Law* Hits AESA Radars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like manufacturers are starting to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-07-14&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/07\/14\/AW_07_14_2008_p66-65485.xml&amp;headline=Small+Drop-in+AESA+Radars+Hit+Market\">relatively inexpensive and low cost active, electronically-scanned array (AESA) radars as retrofits to existing aircraft<\/a>. (<em>Paid Subscription Required<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you have hundreds of solid state radars on a chip working together, and these chips are following the same trajectory as did processors and memory in the early days of the integrated circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon is exhibiting its X-band Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar(RACR) at Farnborough<sup>\u2020<\/sup>, which is designed to be lighter, cheaper, and require less power (and thus less cooling is required).<\/p>\n<p>These radars are not up to the performance of, for example the F-22&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AN\/APG-77\">APG-77<\/a> radar, but they still provide a significant improvement in capability, including increased range, better resolution (with perhaps some anti-stealth capability), and the possibility of the radar being used for electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore%27s_law\">Moore&#8217;s Law<\/a> says that computer chips will double in power every 18 months (or 2 years depending on how you define power).<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">If anyone knows of a way for me to get an all-expense-paid trip to either the Farnborough or the Paris air show, and they need a kidney&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like manufacturers are starting to offer relatively inexpensive and low cost active, electronically-scanned array (AESA) radars as retrofits to existing aircraft. (Paid Subscription Required) Basically, you have hundreds of solid state radars on a chip working together, and these chips are following the same trajectory as did processors and memory in the early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195280"}],"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=195280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}