(AESA) FIRE CONTROL RADAR Vixen 1000E is a high performance AESA radar KEY FEATURES designed for fighter/interceptor aircraft building on over 60 years of fire control radar experience. Vixen The Vixen 1000E Radar has been designed from the 1000E features an innovative roll-repositionable outset to meet worldwide fire control radar detection AESA antenna to provide a full ±100º field of regard and target tracking needs combined into one efficient allowing maximum situational awareness and platform modular system. The Vixen 1000E builds on common survivability. This Wide Field of Regard (WFoR) allows modular units for a scaleable system architecture to the aircraft to turn away after missile launch, whilst still meet the needs of fire control and intercept radar maintaining datalinks to the missile. operational requirements whilst remaining resistant to radar countermeasures. The highly reliable AESA transmit-receive module technology incorporated in Vixen 1000E significantly The AESA antenna is coupled to fully digital improves system availability leading to reduced multi-channel exciter/receiver and processor lifecycle costs. Line Replaceable Units (LRUs). These provide a comprehensive mode suite which includes air-to-air, Vixen 1000E is part of a family of AESA Radars air-to-surface, interleaved and support functions, delivering greater performance and higher reliability which can be readily adapted or extended in software than comparable mechanically scanned radars and to meet future needs. offers all the advantages of multi-function AESA arrays with significant through life cost savings.
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The radar makes use of AESA alert-confirm techniques TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
to confirm targets on first detection. This combined Frequency X Band with optimised AESA waveforms results in increased Scan Coverage +/- 100° track initiation ranges, whilst simultaneously Scan Velocity Instant beam switching maintaining situational awareness. The instantaneous Cooling Liquid and Air scanning ability of the AESA also provides a Weight 215kg comprehensive suite of interleaved air and surface Key Interfaces Ethernet, 1553B modes, thus providing the pilot with all round MODES AVAILABLE situational awareness. Air-to-Air Modes Search While Track Single Target Track Reliability Air Combat Modes HUD search At the core of the AESA radar design is the ability to Vertical scan tolerate individual item failure. Component failures in Slewable scan the array result in graceful performance degradation Boresight rather than complete system failure, delivering Air-to-Surface modes Real beam ground map high operational availability when compared with Doppler Beam Sharpening conventional radar systems. Significant cost benefits Sea Surface Search and Track over the life of the system are realised due to the Ground Moving Target Indication and Track high reliability, increased availability and reduced Spotlight & Stripmap Synthetic Aperture Radar maintenance requirements. Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Modes and capabilities Air to Surface Ranging The mode set allows the system to deliver all of the Interleaved Modes Customer configurable functional capabilities of a Fire Control Radar within interleaved Air & Surface modes an acceptable platform volume. This is combined Support Functions Passive Search with the full capabilities of a detection, tracking and While Track prosecution system to meet the needs of emerging Missile Datalinks new world threats. Cued Search Non-Cooperative Target Recognition The system utilises all the benefits of an electronically Comprehensive ECCM suite Weather mode scanned array to deliver: ▪▪ Significantly enhanced performance relative to similar sized systems with the same weight, volume and power ▪▪ Comparable performance to larger mechanically scanned system whilst offering reduced weight and power.
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