Radar system having spoofer, blanker and canceler
US6538597B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 14, 2000 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04K2203/32
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A radar system including a blanker and a sidelobe canceler is described including an open loop nulling circuit for introducing one or more nulls in the main beam and a blanker beam. With this arrangement, the blanker can be operated even in the presence of strong sidelobe jamming without the conventional problems attributable to noise amplification. Also described is an antenna configuration for implementing the open loop nulling, including a pair of orthogonal linear arrays. One of the arrays is omnidirectional in azimuth and directional in elevation and the other array is omnidirectional in elevation and directional in azimuth in order to point the main and blanker beams in the direction of jammers. In one embodiment, the radar system further includes a spoofer and the crossed linear arrays process the spoofer signals on transmit and process blanker signals on receive.
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