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Aircraft radar
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The czars of radar technology.
Less than a quarter of a century after first entering service on Nasa's Seasat spacecraft, synthetic aperture radar (sar) technology has made the transition from being a highly specialised radar mode to one which is now widely available on the radars of many modern fighter aircraft. Engineering teams are pushing the technology to produce ever more spectacular results.
First fielded for military purposes in highly-classified forms such as the Asar-1 and -2 used by the Lockheed SR-71 and U-2 respectively, synthetic aperture radars have become a widely used surveillance tool and a way of providing ground images of high resolution from fighter-mounted radars. As Saddam Hussein's battered army retreated from Kuwait back to Iraq in January 1991, its progress was monitored by the AN/Apy-1 sar of the E-8A Joint Stars ai...See the full content of this document
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