EADS Defence & Security (DS) together with its partner companies has successfully concluded two major radar technology programs paving the way for the unprecedented performance of the new Active Electronically Scanning Array (AESA) radar technology.
Following extensive flight tests of the multi-channel AESA radar demonstrator in 2008, the German-French-British Airborne Multirole Solid state Active array Radar (AMSAR) research program has now ended with the delivery of data evaluation reports by Defence Electronics, an integrated business unit of DS, SELEX Galileo and Thales.
At the same time the German-British Captor E-sCAn Risk-reduction (CECAR) program has led to successful integration of a radar demonstrator system specifically adapted to the Eurofighter/Typhoon. Under CECAR, Defence Electronics together with SELEX Galileo developed a radar demonstrator proving the feasibility of replacing the existing Captor Eurofighter radar.
"Over more than a decade, the joint effort of our customer nations and partner industries has proven the enormous potential of AESA technology," summarized Bernd Wenzler, CEO of Defence Electronics. "From this basis we are already looking at the next technology steps toward multifunction sensors, which will introduce multisensor performance and reduce through-life cost but which requires similar long term research efforts."
