{"id":199803,"date":"2007-06-26T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/conformal-radar-arrays-are-now-being-prototyped\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T11:14:00","slug":"conformal-radar-arrays-are-now-being-prototyped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/conformal-radar-arrays-are-now-being-prototyped\/","title":{"rendered":"Conformal radar arrays are now being prototyped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an array this large, resolution could be very good, and it&#8217;s likely that it might have significant stealth detection capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution of a radar is proportional to the size of the antenna, and the resolution attained here should be sufficient to pick up almost anything.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2007-06-25&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2007\/06\/25\/AW_06_25_2007_p51-2847.xml&amp;headline=Conformal+radar+arrays+are+now+being+prototyped\">Conformal radar arrays are now being prototyped<\/a><\/span>(Subscription Required)<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Aviation Week &#038; Space Technology<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">06\/25\/2007, page 51<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">David A. Fulghum<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">El Segundo, Calif.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Radars could be mounted on football-field-size plastic sheets<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Printed headline: Beyond Big<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Conformal radar arrays that a year ago were only concepts are now being prototyped. Large apertures are being designed as skin to hug the complex curves of aircraft wings and fuselages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">A massive structure under construction by Raytheon will form one side of a three-football-field-long airship. About six million elements will make up the 6,000-sq.-meter antenna, says Mark Hauhe, a senior fellow working on advanced radar concept demonstrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img239.imageshack.us\/img239\/3073\/aw062520072413lcp0.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Third-generation AESA radars may be hundreds of yards long and use electrical components lithographed to a lightweight plastic-like material that is folded to form radiating elements.Credit: RAYTHEON CONCEPT<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;..<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an array this large, resolution could be very good, and it&#8217;s likely that it might have significant stealth detection capabilities. The resolution of a radar is proportional to the size of the antenna, and the resolution attained here should be sufficient to pick up almost anything. Conformal radar arrays are now being prototyped(Subscription Required)Aviation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199803"}],"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=199803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}