DRIFT ANGLE AND GROUND SPEED MEASURING EQUIPMENT

Abstract

Research is concerned with the development of a small light-weight attachment to modern attack radar systems which will provide essential navigation information. This project has two main objectives. One is to modify the design of the present drift angle attachment as necessary for use at K-band, and to adapt it for use with radar set AN/APQ-89(XAN-1). The other objective is to develop a technique for extracting ground speed information from the radar signal. Major effort was devoted to the exploration of the variable-noise method for measuring ground speed. A K-band modulator was designed which uses a slightly different method of obtaining the same results as the one used in the ground speed experiments with the X-band radar. It was designed in such a way that it can be used in experiments involving both drift angle and ground speed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0323770

Entities

People

  • Robert N. Mccaffrey

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attachment
  • Ground Speed
  • K Band
  • Modulators
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Aids
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Radar Signals
  • Radio Frequency Devices
  • X Band

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Radar Systems Engineering.