Electronic Warfare And Radar Systems Engineering Handbook Pdf

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Thishandbook is designed to aid electronic warfare and radar systems engineers in making general estimations regarding capabilities of systems. This handbook is sponsored by the NAVAIR Director of Electronic Warfare/Combat Systems Department.

The course is intended for officers of the armed forces and for scientists and technical officers in government defence establishments and the defence industry. It is particularly suitable for those who, in their subsequent careers, will be involved with the specification, analysis, development, technical management or operation of military radar, electro-optics, communications, sonar or information systems, where the emphasis will be on an electronic warfare environment.

Students taking the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) course variant are able to choose to study, and will be awarded, either the PgCert in Communications Electronic Warfare or PgCert in Sensors Electronic Warfare.

A Military Electronic Systems Engineering graduate achieves a high level of understanding and detailed knowledge of military communications and sensor systems with particular regard to electronic warfare. In addition, the MSc course enables the student to carry out an in-depth investigation into an area of electronic warfare to further enhance their analytical capability. Successful graduates of this course should be fully equipped for roles in defence intelligence, systems development and acquisition, involving the specification and analysis of such systems, working individually or as part of a team.

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Successful graduates of this course should be fully equipped for roles in defence intelligence, systems development and acquisition, involving the specification and analysis of such systems, working individually or as part of a team either in the military or in the defence industry.

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An RWR is a passive electronic warfare support system [1] that provides timely information to the pilot about its RF signal environment. The RWR intercepts an impinging signal, and uses signal processing techniques to extract information about the intercepted waveform characteristics, as well as the location of the emitter. This information can be used to invoke counter-measures, such as jamming to avoid being detected by the radar. The interaction between the radar and the aircraft is depicted in the following diagram.

This example simulates a scenario with a ground surveillance radar and an airplane with an RWR. The RWR detects the radar signal and extracts the following waveform parameters from the intercepted signal:

The RWR chain consists of a phased array antenna, a channelized receiver, an envelope detector, and a signal processor. The frequency band of the intercepted signal is estimated by the channelized receiver and the envelope detector, following which the detected subbanded signal is fed to the signal processor. Beam steering is applied towards the direction of arrival of this subbanded signal, and the waveform parameters are estimated using pseudo Wigner-Ville transform in conjunction with Hough transform. Using angle of arrival and single-baseline approach, the location of the emitter is also estimated.

The transmit antenna of the radar is a 8-by-8 uniform rectangular phased array, having a spacing of λ/2 between its elements. The signal propagates from the radar to the aircraft and is intercepted and analyzed by the RWR. For simplicity, the waveform is chosen as a linear FM waveform with a peak power of 100 W.

The ground surveillance radar is unaware of the direction of the target, therefore, it needs to scan the entire space to look for the aircraft. In general, the radar will transmit a series of pulses at each direction before moving to the next direction. Therefore, without losing generality, this example assumes that the radar is transmitting toward zero degrees azimuth and elevation. The following figure shows the time frequency representation of the arrival of a four-pulse train at the aircraft. Note that although the pulse train arrives at a specific delay, the time delay of the arrival of the first pulse is irrelevant for the RWR because it has no knowledge transmit time and has to constantly monitor its environment.

The RWR is equipped with a 10-by-10 uniform rectangular array with a spacing of λ/2 between its elements. It operates in the entire L-band, with a center frequency of 2 GHz. The RWR listens to the environment, and continuously feeds the collected data into the processing chain.

The envelope detector in the RWR is responsible for detecting the presence of any signal. As the RWR is continuously receiving data, the receiver chain buffers and truncates the received data into 50 μs segments.

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