APG-70 what type of NCTR?

[MRTX]

Like the title says i wanted to ask if somebody knows what type of NCTR the APG-70 uses? Whilst in theory it obviously is advanced enough to conduct NCTR with jet engine modulation, I'm not 100% sure if its resolution is fine enough for range profiling. It certainly would be awesome to have an all aspect NCTR capability. 

[hotrod525]

I highly doubt all-aspect NCTR exist, may be for AESA radar but otherwise, from what i know the radar need to see the inlets to recognise their noise.

[MRTX]

Range profiling also is possible with mechanical radars (for example the Captor-C of the Eurofighter can conduct NCTR through range profiling), they simply need to have a high enough resolution. And since the APG-70 is renown at its time of introduction for its ground breaking SAR resolution, i was wondering if it is also able to do so. 

[Blaze1]

On 3/9/2023 at 8:00 PM, MRTX said:

Range profiling also is possible with mechanical radars (for example the Captor-C of the Eurofighter can conduct NCTR through range profiling), they simply need to have a high enough resolution. And since the APG-70 is renown at its time of introduction for its ground breaking SAR resolution, i was wondering if it is also able to do so. 

MRTX, do you have a source for this?

[Bananabrai]

10 hours ago, Blaze1 said:

MRTX, do you have a source for this?

Was wondering the same. Wikipedia? M-Scan is no real joy mostly anyway.

[hotrod525]

Apparently some people did a paper on that in 2004, i havent read the entire thing but there is some info to dug in.

Quote

"This paper considers a number of aspects related to the achievement of non-cooperative target recognition capabilities in current and near-future radar systems. The scope of the paper is restricted to consideration of the use of high range-resolution profiles"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Aspects-of-NCTR-for-Near-Future-Radar-Miller-Shephard/b2246e004326f8065268e1a57d0f4a267f5b00c2

 

Edited April 26, 2023 by hotrod525

[GGTharos]

On 3/7/2023 at 12:56 AM, MRTX said:

Like the title says i wanted to ask if somebody knows what type of NCTR the APG-70 uses? Whilst in theory it obviously is advanced enough to conduct NCTR with jet engine modulation, I'm not 100% sure if its resolution is fine enough for range profiling. It certainly would be awesome to have an all aspect NCTR capability. 

Unless you find very solid evidence to the contrary, it's JEM.

[F-2]

Apg-63 got JEM NCTR in MSIP II around 1986 which is a close contemporary of APG-70, I would think the two are the same. I don’t remember reading the last build F-15 with APG-70 had any differences in air to air capabilities.