Radar Upgrades

Challenges

When a radar system is past its mid life, owners are faced with the difficult and often expensive challenge of replacing their systems. Radar upgrades can become a cost effective solution to alleviate component obsolescence, which creates soaring maintenance and support costs, in turn affecting the performance and reliability of an ageing radar system.

Many of these once state-of-the-art radar systems have also been outgrown by the environment they operate in. Increased levels of non-static clutter such as wind farms, increased air traffic densities and new requirements to track smaller cross section targets, like UAV’s, all place a performance overhead on a system that was already operating at the peak of technology for its time.

Solutions

Intersoft Electronics has field proven upgrades for military and civil radar systems. These systems cover a diverse range of use from

• airport surveillance radars (TA-10 ASR),
• precision approach radars (PAR80),
• 3D air defence radars (S723-743D) as well as
• tactical firefinder radars (AN/TPQ-36).

Past upgrade projects led to the development of COTS devices like

• the Primary Radar Extractor (PRE790)and
• the NextGen IF Signal Processor (ISP894).

Besides improved performance and reduced costs, Intersoft Electronics pursues quick and easy installation and support of Out-Of-The-Box upgrade solutions through our Closed Loop Installation Concept (CLIC).

Project references