DRDO ToT?
Yes definitely from LRDE lab.
DRDO ToT?
@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?
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Monstrous Virupaksha Radar of Su30 MKI Upgrade - alphadefense.in
DRDO’s Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is starting fabrication of the Virupaksha radar for the Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKI upgrade. They are setting up two assembly jigs to begin ground testing soon. Tight Assembly and Testing Timeline LRDE plans to deliver two fully...alphadefense.in
Well he corrected himself later. Its 2400 TRMs.@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?
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Monstrous Virupaksha Radar of Su30 MKI Upgrade - alphadefense.in
DRDO’s Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is starting fabrication of the Virupaksha radar for the Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKI upgrade. They are setting up two assembly jigs to begin ground testing soon. Tight Assembly and Testing Timeline LRDE plans to deliver two fully...alphadefense.in
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.