NORA – ACTIVE ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ARRAY

NORA – ACTIVE ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ARRAY

Ericsson’s future airborne radar is Not Only a Radar, NORA, 😀 but also a complete electronic warfare system including jamming and data communication. The new radar will use an Active Electronically Scanned Array, AESA, built up with approximately 1000 individual transmit/receive modules. The antenna, mounted on a single-axis platform, will give well over 200˚ coverage in azimuth. NORA will offer superior performance by virtue of a number of core capabilities at Ericsson – beam agility, beam widening, multi-channel processing, target-specific waveforms and low radar cross-section.

..guess how the thread starter got his nick :rolleyes:

robban,

check this post >> http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=706635&postcount=36

Early LCA concepts incorporated canards just like the Gripen – the BAe P.106 served as the stepping stones for both. Extensive consultation with Dassault, BAe, LM(F-16XL design team) and MBB in addition to inhouse wind tunnel testing took the LCA’s design far ahead of the P.106’s canard layout and resulted in the design you can see today.

The Gripen however appears to be essentailly a completed P.106.

A note from official ADA print material :

Interestingly, with the Tejas, the original design called for canards as a possible configuration. However, once the cranked, compound hybrid delta design was optimized, ADA was extremely happy with the result, and canards were dropped – as they did not offer any advantage or enhance manoverability in the Tejas’s design configuration.

Confirmed what? More details would help..:confused:

If Thales said they have supplied Master-T to India, they are correct..there is at least one Master-T in IAF service..but the question is ..

Are there Master-xx (which version?) to be used with the Indian ABM system?
Do these come with technoilogy transfer to be manufactured in india and with source codes etc?

Thats what I am wondering about..

I dont know about the exact version number, for I did not ask about it. What i did get confirmed was that the “recently sold” Master series radar was used with the recent Indian ABM test. It was also explicitly mentioned to me that its performance was “much better” than Green Pines in posession with India. I did not ask about tech transfer, source codes etc..

Infact several months back there were news articles on the proposed sale of Thales master series radars for use with India’s indigenous ABM systems.

Here is one oldie >> http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=309964

AFAIK the LCA’s sustained turn rate is ~17-18deg/sec and its instantaneous turn rate is ~30deg/sec.

Where did you get those numbers :confused:

Who know the specification of Phazotron FGA01-01 Zhuk-MAE?

I have obtained a 40 page Phazothron information & analytical journal on that very radar. I’ll post a scan shortly. 🙂

For now, i only have a terribly taken pic of an infoboard of the radar :

Do You know, what’s new on the front of the canopy of that naval-model ??? … looks longer than before ! … and integrated IR-search ?? :confused:

Thanks again for these pictures, Deino 😀

Deino, your attention to detail is awe inspiring

… yes, i did take another look at it today and there was nothing there …no IRST or anything like that …. strange and weird indeed.

cheers.

Great stuff, thanks!
I hope you remembered to get us a close-up of the mysterious EO system on the right engine nacelle? 😉

Nope, i seem to have missed it in my excitement 🙁

Nevertheless, i am going tomorrow too; i’ll try getting it if i can manage to obtain the requisite access.