OPERATIONAL EVALUATION OF COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST MORTAR LOCATOR AN/MPQ-10A. EW SYSTEMS TEST USAEPG-3 PHASE II EQUIPMENT TEST AND EVALUATION.

Abstract

Radar Set AN/MPQ-10A is a lightweight, mobile radar set that operates in the S-band from 2,740 to 2,960 mc. It is designed to locate and track mortar and artillery shells. The AN/MPQ-10A is vulnerable to cw, synchronous pulsed, and rf noise signals within defined limits. Airborne jammers employing sweep frequency and spot jamming met with some difficulty when the antijam circuits of the AN/MPQ-10A were used. S-band chaff proved extremely effective as a countermeasure. Other types of chaff varied in effect, from excellent with SX-band chaff to poor with X-band chaff. Multiple firing causes radar hunting in the AN/MPQ-10A when two or more shells are fired simultaneously from the same location. Servo system jamming was also tested with indications that the jamming procedure used has definite possibilities. (Author)

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Feb 01, 1957
• Accession Number: AD0311197

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artillery
• Countermeasures
• Electronic Countermeasures
• Electronic Equipment
• Electronic Jamming
• Frequency
• Jammers
• Jamming
• Test And Evaluation
• X Band

Readers

• Aerospace Test and Evaluation
• Marksmanship and Weaponry.
• Radar Systems Engineering.