{"id":199017,"date":"2007-09-18T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/small-cheap-aesa-radars-available-for-rpvs\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:28:00","slug":"small-cheap-aesa-radars-available-for-rpvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/small-cheap-aesa-radars-available-for-rpvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Small, Cheap, AESA Radars Available for RPVs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told, I could see these entering civil aviation as weather radars too, and with a bit of software, you could put it on a cruise missile, and you could follow terrain, and jam radars searching for you.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A3c9dc641-92ea-4f94-a355-56e8c7cdf539\">PicoSar<\/a>(Shown below) weighs less than 25 pounds and is about the size of a toaster.<\/p>\n<p>It has a range of about 12 miles and can track ground targets, and it appears to run cool enough that it does not need liquid cooling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img250.imageshack.us\/img250\/7992\/7a66352e41bc4caebeaeec4wi9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With some decent software, you could probably gang a bunch of these together for better resolution, or use it for stealthy radar antenna.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for someone to apply a low performance (cheap) version of this technology to satellite TV receivers.  It could adjust to gusts in fractions of a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told, I could see these entering civil aviation as weather radars too, and with a bit of software, you could put it on a cruise missile, and you could follow terrain, and jam radars searching for you. The PicoSar(Shown below) weighs less than 25 pounds and is about the size of a toaster. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199017"}],"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=199017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}