{"id":195893,"date":"2008-06-07T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/looks-like-moores-law-may-be-hitting-aesa-radar-technology\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T13:45:00","slug":"looks-like-moores-law-may-be-hitting-aesa-radar-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/looks-like-moores-law-may-be-hitting-aesa-radar-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Moore&#8217;s Law May Be Hitting AESA Radar Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars look to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-06-02&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/06\/02\/AW_06_02_2008_p53-50750.xml&amp;headline=Radar+Offers+Fewer+Places+To+Hide\">approaching some major reductions in cost as the technology matures<\/a>(<em>paid subscription required<\/em>).  They are looking at the cost to drop from $5 million\/m<sup>2<\/sup> to $500K\/m<sup>2<\/sup> so &#8220;cheap&#8221; is a relative term.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the use of an AESA with a parabolic reflector setup can give a much larger effective aperture, and hence resolution.  It&#8217;s called AESA-fed reflectors (AFR), and it&#8217;s less agile than pure AESA, but a lot cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars look to be approaching some major reductions in cost as the technology matures(paid subscription required). They are looking at the cost to drop from $5 million\/m2 to $500K\/m2 so &#8220;cheap&#8221; is a relative term. Additionally, the use of an AESA with a parabolic reflector setup can give a much &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-195893","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\/195893"}],"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=195893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}