L-band video receiver

S-bandfor aircraft

The design of this modern radar receiver resulted from a study of the current and likely future needs of the Civil and Military air traffi c control community. With the improvement of cooperative surveillance technologies - Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) systems with Mode S capability and the advent of ADS-B, the perceived importance of the traditional “Primary” Surveillance Radar (PSR) over the past 10 years appeared to be diminishing. This diminishing importance of tradition PSR technology lead to industry directing new product investment dollars toward cooperative surveillance technologies and away from supporting the PSR radar and abandoning the aging traditional PSR air surveillance product enhancements and next generation systems. This resulted in leaving users with the high cost of acquiring spare components to maintain their PSR radar systems.