Radar Vulnerability to Jamming

Seminar Overview

Learn to analyze radar/ECM scenarios, quantitative methods of assessing radar vulnerability to ECM and how to determine jammer ERP requirements.

Seminar Outline

Day 1

• EW Scenarios, Radar/Jammer/Beacon Geometries
• Calculation of J/S Ratio
• Effect of Radar Signal Processing Gain
• Limitations of Analytic Methods
• Radar System Non-Linearity
• Uses and Levels of Simulation
• Noise-Like Jamming (Self-Screening and Stand-Off)

Day 2

• Acquisition Prevention and Track Accuracy Degradation
• Angle Track-On-Jamming
• Range Gate Pull-Off
• Leading Edge Tracking
• Simulation Results and J/S Requirements for Range Deception
• AM Jamming Versus Conscan, COSRO, SORO/TWS, Conopulse (SWC)

Day 3

• Vulnerability of Monopulse to Cross POL and Cross-Eye
• Simulation Results for Angle Deception
• Velocity Deception (Doppler Filtering, MTI and CW Radar)
• Velocity Tracking Vulnerabilities
• Simulation Results for Velocity Deception
• AGC Models (Linear and Logarithmic)
• AGC Transient Response
• Simulation Results for AGC Deception

Seminar Materials Provided

Radar Vulnerability to Jamming by R.N. Lothes, M.B. Szymanski and R.G. Wiley, Artech House, 1990); seminar notes; and a certification for 2.2 Continuing Education Units

Who Should Attend

This seminar is valuable to EW practitioners, radar designers, jammer designers and anyone concerned with the vulnerability of radars to ECM. This includes those who program or design ECM gear to meet operational needs.

Instructor(s)

Richard G. Wiley, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Scientist of RAS, Inc., has over 30 years of experience in ELINT/EW, specializing in signal analysis and receivers. He has a BS/MSEE degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has authored three books and twenty technical papers.