Sensor Fusion / Individual Sensors
Radar
Yet another factor separating Eurofighter Typhoon from the crowd is its avionics and sensors suite. This section outlines the systems and packages necessary for high mission effectiveness and survivability in the high threat situations the aircraft was designed to meet.
- Overview
- Radar
- Infra Red Search & Track (IRST)
- Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS)
- Navigation
- Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS)
The CAPTOR Radar has been developed by the Euroradar consortium and is the best performing type of its class. The multi-mode pulse-Doppler Radar is the first airborne Radar in NATO with three as opposed to two processing channels. The third channel is used in a jamming scenario for sidelobe nulling, interference blanking and jammer classification.
The Radar provides Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface features.
Main Air-to-Air features:
- Search Modes - Range While Search (RWS), Velocity Search (VS) and multiple target Track While Scan (TWS)
- Lock-Follow Modes, which are tailored for long range tracking and short range tracking for use in visual identification or gun attacks
- Air Combat Acquisition Modes allowing a choice of boresight, vertical scan HUD field of view or slaved acquisition
Main Air-to-Surface features:
- Search Modes - Ground Map, High Resolution Map, Ground Moving Target Identification and Sea Surface Search and Track While Scan
- Track Modes - Fixed Target Track and Moving Target Track
- Air-to-Surface Ranging
- Terrain Avoidance
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