Distributed airborne array concepts-分布式阵列.pdf

Distributed Airborne Array Concepts INTRODUCTION Radar performance in noise and jamming is a monotonic function of the power-aperture product [1, 21. This paper evaluates the improvement in radar performance due to increasing the aperture size of air- borne radar by distributing antenna elements or small subarrays throughout large portions of the skin of an aircraft. The performance measure adopted is signal BERNARD D. STEINBERG, Fellow, IEEE to receiver noise ratio (SNR) and its equivalent, detec- ELI YADIN, Student Member, IEEE tion range of targets in noise. Valley Forge Research Center The critical technical problem is that of overcom- ing the distortion in such a phased array due to the nonrigidity of the skin and airframe. This problem is The improvement in SNR and detection range due to introduced (but not solved) in the paper, and a discus- sion of other difficult technical problems is presented. distributing an antenna array throughout the airframe and skin of The problem of nonrigidity must be overcome by a an aircraft is examined. SNR formulas for three system