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Russia unveiled working AESA with 68 T/R modules at MAKS called Epaulet-A

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/294831/russian_industry_shows_its_stuff/

Piotr Butowski is the guy who writes for JANES so this is as good a source as you are going to get.

Only 68 modules but a working AESA non the less.

Tikhomirov NIIP institute presented a small Epaulet-A active electronically scanned antenna (AESA) radar. Unlike another AESA radar, Zhuk-A, shown by Phazotron-NIIR company in the neighboring pavilion, the Epaulet-? was not a mock-up, but a fully functioning experimental radar dismounted for the time of exposition from the test stand. According to NIIP representatives, the radar operates within frequency range X (centimeter wavelength). The radiation power in each of the antenna channels “amounts to 8-1OW, which may be compared to 5-8W emitted by foreign radars”; noise factor amounts to 3dB, whereas the efficiency factor is about 30%.

The Epaulet-A radar has been built almost exclusively from Russian components with use of Russian technology, which is one of the basic conditions required by Russian air forces for the equipment to be installed in the fifth-generation fighter. The Epaulet-A is an experimental radar used for developing AESA technology and it is composed of only 68 transmit-receive modules; the next radars may be equipped with aerials of any form and size. The price of a single module “will be reduced to an acceptable level, provided that the same technology is used also for other series radiolocation systems made for military and civil applications” say NIIP officials.

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