1. Air-to-air modes

1.1 Airborne radar issues

A typical airborne radar scenario is shown in figure 1 .

In this figure 1 , the airborne radar is installed at the front of an airborne platform and seeks to detect flying objects by scanning space with its antenna: object A flying at high altitude and object B flying at low altitude.

We assume conventional radar operation (the type most commonly used for ground-based radars):

• an antenna with a few degrees of aperture at – 3 dB;

• low pulse repetition...