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Plextek will be showing its latest Blighter B303 radar system at the DSEi defence technology exhibition in London this week.
A feature of this version of the radar is 180° of electronic scanning (e-scan) in a 20kg pole or mast mounting unit with a detection range out to 8km.
Plextek has designed a patented low-cost printed antenna technology to electronically scan a full 180°, equivalent to 100km² of land, in just 1.5 seconds.
“This version extends the capability and cost effectiveness of the Blighter electronic-scanning radar family for short-to-medium range ground surveillance applications,” said Mark Radford, director of security products at Plextek.
A feature of the Blighter radar is its use of electronic-scanning technology to achieve exceptionally slow speed target detection even in cluttered environments, whilst scanning at high speeds.
The B303 radar system is being used by Meridian Defence and Security on their WASP – Wide Area Surveillance Platform as a trailer-mounted multi-sensor surveillance system.
Blighter’s electronic scanning system forms precise beams both on transmit and receive, allowing it to ignore and reject targets and clutter that trouble older staring array radars.
The radar’s wide elevation beam width of 20° allows it to operate in regions with complex hilly terrain and detect hill-top and valley hugging targets with a single scan.
The Blighter B303 radar will be on display at the Plextek stand S3-495 at DSEI, 13th to 16th Sept. 2011 and also mounted on the Meridian WASP on stand S6-190.