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@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?



No, I thought he thanked someone in the original post, maybe edited it out later?

Either way, it seems legit. It does seem like we got some novel stuff up our sleeve for designing improvements to the electrical generators we plan to hook up to the modernized/indigenized AL31FPs.
 

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@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?


Well he corrected himself later. Its 2400 TRMs.
 

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Hmm...a cylindrical antenna array. What could this be for?

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Hmm...a cylindrical antenna array. What could this be for?

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Low directionality bias, generally I have seen these configurations for weather, marine (and also space I think).... since targets of interest can vector in from anywhere, and you dont get bleed effects from planar polygon (keeping power output and frequency band same) that affects beam steering, width, polarisation etc (that need computation power to correct and address for planar).

Planar makes power density and circuitry more efficient. So there is a tradeoff at play till those things get miniaturised more, so I guess it depends on the final application needs and optimisation from the current sweetspot enjoyed by planar versus sweetspot enjoyed by spherical.

Cylindrical is somewhat halfway between planar polygon and pure spherical, so its got its mix of pros and cons in between the two.
 

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Low directionality bias, generally I have seen these configurations for weather, marine (and also space I think).... since targets of interest can vector in from anywhere, and you dont get bleed effects from planar polygon (keeping power output and frequency band same) that affects beam steering, width, polarisation etc (that need computation power to correct and address for planar).

Planar makes power density and circuitry more efficient. So there is a tradeoff at play till those things get miniaturised more, so I guess it depends on the final application needs and optimisation from the current sweetspot enjoyed by planar versus sweetspot enjoyed by spherical.

Cylindrical is somewhat halfway between planar polygon and pure spherical, so its got its mix of pros and cons in between the two.

I had this in my archive:


Quick search just now:

 

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