Mar is land version,lighter
They are not have same specs. Radar range, aircraft seek range etc.
Mar-d is naval version thus it is different.
My point is , they are not exactly the same radar and the radar on gokdeniz is mar-d.
A land radar can not be used off the shelf on naval platform it needs to be modified.
The -D attachment in the rear of Mar indicates it is a naval radar.
Like gokdeniz was actually referred as Korkut-D initially.
"The AN/SPY-3 was originally to be combined with the S Band AN/SPY-4 under the designator "Dual Band Radar" on both the Zumwalt Class (DDG-1000) destroyer and Ford Class (CVN-78) aircraft carrier. On 2 June 2010, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter announced that they will be removing the SPY-4 S-band Volume Search Radar from the DDG 1000's dual-band radar to reduce costs as part of the Nunn-McCurdy certification process. Due to the SPY-4 removal, SPY-3 radar is to have software modifications so as to perform a volume search functionality."X band functionality (8 to 12 GHz frequency range) is optimal for minimizing low-altitude propagation effects, narrow beam width for best tracking accuracy, wide frequency bandwidth for effective target discrimination, and the target illumination.
Without x band type-45 is not a truly air defence frigate.
Without x band radar how it could be make effective anti balistic defence ?
He just talk about software modifications also.
On the other hand from your side arleigh burke's use sm-3 only with s band without x band.
This also explains how a dual band radar is created. It is combination of X and S band modules to a single backend.
It was my mistake that i have interpreted it wrong as if an spy 3 was a dual band radar.
An spy 3 is an x band radar, optionally considered for DBR, combined with an spy 4 and later S band (an spy 4) modules were dropped.
So dual band radar is not something in software level.
Read the part you have attached carefully. It is referred to software modifications required for X band radar (an spy 3), to make it capable of volume search.
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