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From: mmitchel@msd.gatech.edu (Mark A. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Airborne Radar
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:14:42 GMT
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From: mmitchel@msd.gatech.edu (Mark A. Mitchell)

nak%archie@att.att.com (Neil A Kirby) wrote:
}
}Most modern fighters used phased array grids in the nose.

Umm ... No.  There may be some confusion here about what a phased-array is.
A phased-array is an electronically scanned device with active phase
shifters at each radiating element.  There are non-phased arrays, usually
called something like "slotted waveguide array" or "planar array".  This
is what you will find in the nose of an F-14,-15,-16, or -18.  These
arrays are mechanically steered.  Slightly older vintage fighters use
mechanically scanned reflector antennas, e.g. F-4 and F-111.  The U.S.
does have one phased-array equipped combat aircraft: the B-1B.  It has
a phased-array with mechanical augmentation.  (Details of all these 
aircrafts' radars can be found in _Jane's_Weapon_Systems_.)

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