Argentine Primary Radar 3D long range is no longer a prototype
(defensa.com) The Directorate General of Research and Development (DIGID) under the Argentina Air Force, was the body responsible for carrying out the certification of radar in Morón Air Base. During the procedure, analytical studies on various test scenarios and empirical tests using equipment and aircraft flights were conducted. Also, planes PA-28 were used to check the radar coverage, and a section of planes A-4 of the V ° Air Brigade measurements allowed the radar cell size (discrimination distance and azimuth).
3D primary radars are indispensable for the defense of a country strategic tool because they provide data that enable movement situation and the tasks of detection, monitoring, identification and control airspace within its coverage range.
The agreement, signed in 2007 between Military Industries (FM) state enterprise and rionegrina INVAP allowed to initiate the development of Primary 3D Long Range Radar, known as Primary Radar Argentino. FM took over management of the project and was established as head of product patents, while INVAP contributed its technological capabilities in radar systems. The roadmap plan included six different stages of development or Models of Technology Assessment (MET).
In 2010, in the province of Santiago del Estero, the first business model resulting from the third phase of RPA (MET 3), also called medium Experimental Radar (RAME) was installed. In 2011, Las Lomitas (province of Formosa) was the venue chosen under the Operating Escudo Norte to locate an active model long range now tested and certified as Radar Primary Argentino, in a few days will be permanently installed in a modern tower monitoring and control built in that location.
The processing characteristics of the RPA make it an efficient screening tool in areas of severe clutter and other types of interference, such as technologies used to confuse radar jamming. For this case has a sophisticated Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM) that detects this type of operation and neutralized.
It also has low maintenance costs and a lot of flexibility in their location, as it is easily adapted to different geographical and climate scenarios, providing an optimal response to military needs. The Primary Radar Argentino (RPA) is a sophisticated detection equipment, monitoring and control with a coverage radius of 250 miles (400 kilometers).
The President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner led the October 9 the act of final delivery of the first three Primary Radars Argentinos and approved through a videoconference joined Las Heras in the south with Las Lomitas, in the province of Formosa , where he settled permanently one of the radars and surveillance and control tower opened.
The head of the Defense Ministry, Agustín Rossi said: "We are launching the first station of control and surveillance radar system North Shield program, and delivered to the Air Force the first three primary radars manufactured INVAP. One of them is the one here, the second will be installed in the coming months in Ing. Juárez, also in the province of Formosa, and the third works in Morón Air Base. "
I will now get back to bottling my Malbec
