airborne radar system

An airborne radar system is an integrated aircraft-mounted sensor suite that emits radio waves and processes their reflections to detect, track, and characterize objects or terrain in the surrounding air and ground environment.

Aliases (3)

• airborne ground-mapping radar ×1
• airborne radar ×1
• military avionics system ×1

Instances (10)

• CAPTOR radar
• H2S radar ("airborne ground-mapping radar")
• CAPTOR-M
• ECRS Mk0
• ECRS
• CAPTOR-E
• RBE2 radar ("airborne radar")